The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1905-11-29
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DIR. w. NJ. Late Coplin, a native
Of this county, but for several years
past a resident of Philadelphia, has
been appointed health director for
the City Of Philadelphia. The
position is one of great responsible
ity and carries with it a salary of
5000 a year. Those here who
know him are proud of this honor
conferred upon him as we'll as the
fact that he is to command such
handsome salary.
Mayor WoFer's promise that he
would name a s<big man" for Dfrec=
TOR of Health has been kept in the
case of Doctor Coplin, who has
worldwide recognition in the field of
applied sanitation and as a writer
in all aspects of the work. That no
better man could have been selected
was the spirit of the opinion ex-
pressed by physicians, surgeons,
chemists, scientists and college IN
structors throughout Philadelphia.
Doctor Coplin entered upon his
duties Immediately after taking the
oath. He was formally introduced
to Directors Potter, Acker and Shoy-
er, his fellow members of the
Mayors cabinet, and then to the
heads of the large working force of
the department. Harry A. Mackey
who has been serving as Assistant
Director since the resignation of
Doctor Martin, will retain that posi-
ton for the few days necessary to
permit his aiding Doctor CopIin in
mastering the details of the depart
ment, and~will then formally resign.
Doctor Coplin is Al years old.
and, save for year in 1886, has
lived in Philadelphia for twenty-one
years. His year of absence was de-
voted to organizing the departments
of history, pathology and bacter-
iology in Vanderbilt University, at
Nashville, Tenn. He was one of
the EFbig'' figures in the recent de-
yelopment of Jefferson College.
from which he was graduated in
1886. His writings on the practi-
cal work in sanitation have served to
attract universal scientific attention
to that institution.
AS an inerne of Jefferson, Doctor
Coplin served a year-1SS6-S7 -and
then practiced medicine nine years.
Teaching, department Organization
at Jefferson, study abroad and Prac-
teal work on public boards and for
medical colleges have occupied the
last ten years.
Doctor Coplin was one of the
commission of three appointed by
Mayor Stuart to organize the Phila-
delphia Bureau of Bacteriology
His associates were DIR. John Gui-
teras. now of the University of Ha-
yana. and the late DIR. e. 0. Shakes
ueare. He afterward served on the
civil service board that examined APP
plicants for the bureau, resignlng
when, several years ago, the sugges-
ton was made that appointments
did not bear a reasonable relation 20
the results of the examinations.
President Harrison appointed
Doctor CopIfn an officer of the Unit
ed States Marine Hospital and Pub
lie Health Service and an inspector
Of Immigrants when cholera was
raging in Europe His work in per-
fecting sanitary code for use IN
large industrial establishments IN
hot weather has been universally
recognized.
Besides his professorship in path
oloqv and bacteriology in jefferson
Doctor Coplin is pathologist OF the
Philadelphia hospital, director OF
the hospital laboratories of JetfeIr.,
son and pathologist of the Friends
Asylum. He is a fellow of the
Philadelphia college of Physieians5.
member of the imnortant national.
state and city medical societies, OF
the American Public Health Asso..
cation, of the Association OF
American Pathologists and Bacter.
iologiss, of the American Society OF
Tropical Medicine, fellow of the
American Association for the Ad-
yancement Of Science and president
Of the Philadelphia Pathological
Society.