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Show CHICAGO SELECTS NEW ' HEALTH COMMISSIONER CHICAGO, June 2. Failure of. tha members of tha Chicago Medical society so-ciety to agree on a successor to Dr. William A. Evans, former commissioner commission-er of health, has caased Mnvor Harri- son to reach over into tha government 'a service and select Dr. George B. Young of tha United Statea marina hospital corps, as Chicago's new health commissioner. com-missioner. Tha appointment will be announced at Monday night's council meeting. Dr. oung has been ia eharge of the marine hospital in Chicago for the last six years and has spent twenty years in the government's medical service. A leave of absence permitting him to enter tha city's service was granted yesterday by Surgeon General Wvmau at Washington. The health commissioner's commis-sioner's salary is MOO a year. |