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Show Fhysician or Engineer? rhilnc'clpliia, Nov.- York an-J a fow Kew Jti.rsey towns have rot tbe es-j es-j an.iple of putting some cthor tiiiin a physician nt the licad of their health boards. Philadelphia has selected a sanitary engineer Cor that position and New Yovk a chemist. Thia leads tha Engineering News to mention the new departure with approval. The News thinks that modern health-protection work is far beyond, the capacity of the practirins; physician. physi-cian. It does not object, however, to a physician who, by special sUidy of sanitation, has qualified himself for superintendence of a cotrp.ue.riity's health. No hard and fast rule cdh be laid iown in matters like this. Neither an M. D. nor a Ph. D. nor a r. K. neces- ! sarily makes one fjr.filiQca for chair- j man of. a board of health in a large ' city. Otncr things boin? c;v; il, a phv- , sician )s a natural selection to make. I |