Dr. Urban Maes, 75, one of the nation's most famed surgeons, died at 5:30 p. m. Monday at Touro infirmary. He resided at the Pontchartrain hotel.
Funeral services will be conducted-at 4 p. m. Tuesday from Tharp-Sontheimer-Tharp, Inc., 4127 S. Claiborne, with Canon William S. Turner of Trinity Episcopal church officiating. Interment will be in Metairie cemetery.
Dr. Maes started his career at the turn of the century as a country doctor. He returned to the city in time to volunteer for service when yellow fever ran rampant for the last time here in 1905. He was a native of New Orleans.
In 1906 he was appointed professor of operative surgery at Tu-lane university medical school, from which he had received his! M.D. degree in 1900. He had in-! ferned at Touro. He was madej assistant professor of clinical and! operative surgery at Tulane in 1913 and in 1922 was named Tu-lane's professor of clinical surgery.
| Much of Dr. Maes' national fame was acquired in World War I when, as chief of the surgical services of Base Hospital No. 24, he took a field station and surgical team to the battle lines for the first time in Army history.
