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STATE DEPARTMENT OF
HEALTH
NEW YORK

For the Year Ending December 31, 1917

VOLUME I

AL BANY
J. B. LYON COMPANY, PRINTERS

I have the honor to transmit herewith the thirty-eighth annual

report of the State Commissioner of Health for the year 1917.

CHARIES S. WHITMAN.

Commissioner, IHERMANN M. BIGGS, M.D., LL.D.
Deputy Commissioner, MATTHIAs NICOLL, JR., M. D.
Secretary, JoHN A. SMITH, M.D.
Assistant to Deputy Commissioner, B. R. RICKARDS, S.B.

Executive Clerk, FENIMORE D. BEAGLE

Directors of Divisions

Division of Sanitary Engineering. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Theodore Horton, C.E. Division of Laboratories and Research . . . . . . . . AAugustus B. Wadsworth, M.D. Division of Vital Statistics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Otto R. Eichel, M.D. }}ivision of Communicable Diseases. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fred M. Meader, M.D. HDivision of Child Hygiene. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Honry L. K. Shaw, M.D.

Bacteriologist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . William H. Park, M.D. Animal Pathology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Theobald Smith, M.D. Communicable Disease . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alvah II. Doty, M.D. Surgeon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . George D. Stewart, M.D. Dermatologist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Frederic C. Curtis, M.D. Pediatrician. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L. Emmett Holt, M.D., LL.D. Statistician. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Walter F. Willcox, Ph.D. Public Health Education . . . . . . . . . . . . C.-E. A. Winslow, S.B., M.S., Dr. P. H. Orthopedic Surgeon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Robert W. Lovett, M.D Orthopedic Surgeon. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Royal Whitman, M.D.

Public Health Council
HERMANN M. BIGGs, M.D., LL.D., New York City, Chairman

JOSEPH A. WARREN, A.M., J. L.D., New York City, Secretary Mrs. Elmer Blair. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ;Albany Chairman, Public Health Department, General Federation of Women’s Clubs Simon Flexner, M.D., LL.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . New York City

Director, Laboratories of Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research Homer Folks, LL.D

* * * * g e is e o e o e o so o & o & © to e o & to so & s is a g o 'o e o o g o so to is g g o oi o o Yonkers Secretary, State Charities Aid Association Henry N. Ogden, C. E. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ithaca Professor, Sanitary Engineering, Cornell University T. Mitchell Prudden, M.D., LL.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . New York City

Vice-President, Board of Scientific Directors, Rockefeller Institute for

Medical Research Wilhelm Gaertner, AM., M.D., Ph.D. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Buffalo Attending Physician, German Hospital