Show Ph or Engineer Philadelphia New York and a few I. I N New Nw w Jer Jersey ey towns have set the example ex cx- ample of putting some sonic other than a physician at the head of their health boards Philadelphia has selected a sanitary sanary engineer for that position and I New York a chemist This leads the Engineering News to mention the new departure with approval The News thinks that modern protection health work is far beyond the capacity of the practicing clan cian It does not object however to toa toa toa a physician who by special study of sanitation has qualified himself for superintendence of a community's health I No 1 hard an and fast rule can be laid tl down wn In matters like this Neither an M. M D. D nor a Ph D. D nor a G. G E. E necessarily nece makes one qualified for chairman chairman chair chair- man of a board of health in a large largo city Other things being equal a physician phy phy- is a natural selection to make e. |