The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-09
DR. (. A. LINDSLEY DYING.
WELL KNOWN PHYSICIAN PASS
 ING AWAY.

Has Been Confined to His Home for
 About Three Weeks--Is Suffering
 From Heart Weakness and EmboIism
 of Leg
 Dr. Charles A. Lindsley, one of the
 pest-known physicians in the state, lay last night at the point of death at his nome, l5 Elm street, and there is no hope of his recovery. He has been con-
 fined to his home for about three weeks.
 lie suffers from heart weakness and embolism of the leg.
 pr. Lindsey is seventy-nine years old. He was for twenty-one years sec retary of the state board of health and Tor about forty years was professor in the Yale Medical school. He was first professor of materia medca and next held the chair of theory and practice. He resigned as professor a few years ago, and since then has been professor emeritus, giving lectures in the school occasionally on public hygiene and san 1 itation.
 Dr. Lindsley has wife to whom he was married in Orange, N. J., and two children, Dr. c. Purdy Lindsley, of this city, and Mrs. c. s. McChesney, of Troy, N. Y.
 | Dr. Lindsley was born in Orange, N. J., and there his boyhood and early young manhood days were spent. He prepared for college and graduated in lS4S at Trinity college, Hartford, and won the degree of M. D. at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York He was later in life given rne honorary degree of M. A. by Yale. He came to New Haven in 1853 and settled here, first having an office with a prominent physician, the late Dr. D. A. Tyler, on Wooster street, After being with Dr. Tyler six months he established an of- flee on Grand street (now Grand ave- nue), corner of Franklin street, having first bought the building, in 1860 he bought the handsome place at the cor ner of St. John and Olive streets and removed his office there, remaining there eighteen years, when he removed to his present, 15 Elm street. He was for years identified with St. Johns Episcopal church when its place of worship was on State street, corner of Eld street, and remained with 1t as junior warden for years changing his church connection later in life to St. Thomas church, of which he is and has been for years vestryman. His life has thus been largely identified with New Haven and with the medical pro- fession here, and as secretary for many years of the state board of health he became widely known throughout the state.
 No physician in Connecucut is better known than Dr. Lindsley, and this Is due to his labors in behalf of the better ment of the public health and his inves- tigations of typhoid fever epidenics As secretary of the state board of | health Widspread attention has been | called to his statistical work on mortu- | ary tables and on the prevalence of | diseases. He has advocated strieter | laws to promote better hygienic con ditions in rural districts and to compel | town authorities to pay greater atten- ton to the need of quarantining of con- | tagions diseases and of vaccination when smallpox has made it's appear | ance.
 He also of late years has had the task or compiling the annual report of the state board. His comment in the month " bulletins of the board has been of in- terest at all times. Dr. Lindsley is in his eightieth year.