George McFarlane Mood was born in Charleston, S.C. on March 18, 1880. After attending the College of Charleston, he graduated from the Medical College of South Carolina in 1901. He completed an internship at St. Francis Xavier Hospital, and went on to establish a private practice. Dr. Mood became a professor of bacteriology at the Medical College of South Carolina in 1904. Dr. Mood served on the Board of Commissioners of Roper Hospital from 1916 to 1950, and also served as president of the Charleston County Tuberculosis Association from 1925 to 1936, the Medical Society of South Carolina, and the Widows and Orphans Society of Charleston. He was also a member of the Charleston County Medical Society, the South Carolina Medical Association, and the American Medical Association. Dr. Mood was known for his commitment to public health concerns. He did postgraduate studies in New York, Philadelphia, and New Orleans on milk and meat sanitation, rabies vaccine procedures, and bubonic plague treatment. He also served as chair of a campaign against typhoid and malaria fever in Charleston, providing oversight to the drainage of mosquito breeding areas and working to improve Charleston's sanitation. Dr. Mood also served as the bacteriologist for the Charleston County Board of Health. Dr. Mood married Catherine Ravanel Jervey, and had four children. He died in 1957.
From the description of George McFarlane Mood, M.D. History of Roper Hospital 1938 (Medical University of South Carolina Library). WorldCat record id: 213866644
