New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-10-01
DIR. WISE TAXES OFFICE TODAY.

HE SUCCEEDS DIR. MACDONALD A. PRESIDENT OF
THE IJ.NACy COMMIssION-HIs GOOD RECORD.
DR. Peter Wise enters to-day upon the respon-
chile duties Of president OF the State Commission
in Junacy having been appointed by Governor
Morton the successor OF Dr. carlos r. Mac
Donald who retlres TO resume private practice
The transfer Of all the dependent insane to state
hospitals In the last five years has made this po-
stion one Of the most important In the states
service I'pon the I.uracy Commission devclves
the duty Of furthering the humane and curative
treatment Of more than 10000 patients In the State
; hospitals for tho insane.
. The appo,ntment came 10 DR.. Wise an I'M
sought honor He deeply Interested in the
further development of the St. Lawrence State
Hospital Of which he had been superintendent
since it's organization and was not a candidate for
this any other position. The appointment was
asked for by members of the medical profession
the State Charities Aid Association and others who
were interested in improving the condition Of tho
insane The appointment is unqualifedly com
mendcd by them.
Peter NJ Wise was born at Clarence. Erie Coun-
ty. y. V. March :. 1851. He was educated in the
common schools. at Clarence Academy and at the
Parker Classical Institute. He was graduated in
medicine at the Buffalo Medical College In 1872, and
entered the ST Louis city Hospital as inferno
During the smallpox epidemic of the following
winter he appointed resident physician of the
smallpox hospital In 1879 he was appointed an
assistant physician at the Willard Asylum for the
Insane and remained assistant until 1884, when
upon the resignation of DIR. Chaplin he was unani-
mousy elected TO MI the vacancy rs medical super
intendent. He occupied this position FOR six years
and until he resigned to accept similar position
at the ST. Lawrence Hospital. which he has occu-
pied until the present time In 1881 he visited the
asylun.s Of Great Britain and France. and upon
his return published review OF the systems OF
OF the earliest advocates OF State care for
all the insane. He delivered an address upon this
subject the State Convention OF SuDerlntendents
Of The Poor at jamestown in 1884, outlining the
probable results now realized.
He has contributed freely TO the literature OF
insanity. medical Jurisprudence and allied subjects
In about twenty five separate journal essays His
work and to raise tho standard Of the medical SER
vice led to the publication Of medical reports by
his stan and himself alone attached 10 the annual
report Of the ST. Lawrence State Hospital for 1894
which have received widespread notice. This effort
led directly to the creation Of quarterly bulletin
OF medical reports from the State hospitals, and
DR.. Wise elected the editor In chief He Is
now managing editor of this bulletin.
in 1885 Governor Hill appointed him as one OF the
members of commission Ito locate and make
plans for an asylum In Northern New-York' He
and alone prepared the plans and report upon
them which have been substantially carried out In
the construction of the ST. Lawrence State Hos
pital.
For the last five years he has been professor Of
mental diseases in the University of Vermont In
1881 he elected to the superntendency of the
State Institution for Feeble Minded at Syracuse
which he declined. He Is the author of a Text
Book for Training Schools for Nurses" in two