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Show Physician or Engineer? Philadelphia, Nes- York and a fe-,v New Jersey townn l',3vc set the example ex-ample of puttipg some other than a jj'hysiciaii Ot the head of their health boards. Philadelphia has selected a eanitary engineer for that. position and New York a chemist. This IfTadS the Knginee'ring News to mentioii- th!r new rlepartnre with approval. . The News thinks that modern health-protection work is far beyond the capacity of the' practicing physician. physi-cian. It does not object, however, to a physician who, by special study of Sanitation, has qualified himself for Superintendence of a community's health, ....... No hard and fast rule can be laid down in matters like this. Neither an M. D. nor a Ph. D. nor a C. E. necessarily neces-sarily makes' one"' qualified -for chair-rhan chair-rhan of a boa.rd of health in a large City. Other things being equal, a physician phy-sician is a" natural selection to make. |