New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-03
SULzER URGED TO NAME
DR.. |. R. WILLIAMS
Medical Men and Social Work.
ers Favor Him as State
Health Commissioner.
EXPERTS ALSO FOR HIM
Appointment of New York PLY.
stefan Endorsed by Authors
of Law Recognizing
Health Code.

4 formidable array OF medical men and
social workers is urging upon Governor
sulzer the appointment Of DR.. Linsly r
williams, OF this city. as state Health
Commissioner. His candidacy is favored.
too. by the commission Of experts whom
the Governor had investigate the question
Of reorganization OF the State Health
Department and who drew up and intro
duced the bills amending the public health
law which have just passed the Legis-
lature and received the Governors sigma
ture.
This telegram was sent from here TO
the Governor on Thursday:
we are informed by Mr.. Klngsbury
the general agent Of our society, tina,
your Public Health Commission has rec
commended the appointment OF DR.. Linsly
r, Williams as State Commissioner OF
Health. We have been for years closely
associated with Dr. Williams as unpaid
fellow trustees Of the oldest and largest
general charitable society Of this city.
We regard such appointment as the
best that you could possibly make. We
urge the appointment although We real
ize that by It we should lose man whose
place it will be most difficult to fill. This
telegram lacks our president, r. Fulton
Cuttings, signature. only because he Is IN
Europe II is sent 70 you wholly without
the Doctors knowledge, but we are sure
that he would accept the appointment
PERCY r. PYNE. JOHN SEELY
WARD, L. L. OPDYCKE and GEORGE
BLAGDEN. vlce-presidents; FREDER.
lex TREVOR HILL, secretary, and
ROBERT SHAW MINTURN. treasurer
OF the New York Association for I'M
proving the Condition OF the Poor"
DR.. Williams. who lives AT No. sSi Park
avenue, was graduated from Princeton II
1895 and from the Medical Department Of
Columbia University in 1899, where he has
since taught. He was an inferno al the
Presbyterian and Sloane Maternity hos
pitfalls and for seven years has been con-
nected with the Vanderbilt Clinic and
the City Hospital.
Aided Many Good Causes.
He has always taken a lively interes.
In public health matters; has served az
visiting physician to the House Of Rest
for Consumptives. the Seton Hospital for
Cousumptlves and Sea Breeze Hospital
for tuberculosis in Children; a manager
of the Association for Improving the Con-
dition OF the Poor since 1897. has served
on the New York MIX Committee and
the Committee on Physical Welfare OK
School Children. has been an active
member of the Public Health and Hos
pital Committee Of the New York Acad-
envy of Medicine: was for two years
chairman OF the Committee on Public
Health Of the New York county Medical
Society; is n member Of the Metropolitan
Sewerage Commission. OF the National
Association for the Prevention Of Iucer-
culosis and the American C.lmatO.0sca.
Association.
Or Williams said last night he felt
much gratihed at the support given %
his candidacy by his colleagues I'm and out
Of the medical profession. but Thought
il inappropriate 10 give an interview AZ
this time having received no counrma-
ton OF the report that he would receive
the appointment