Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-07
CHICAGO PHYSl.
CLAN TO DELIVER ADDRESS
ON "PU7LIc HEALTH."
LECTURE ToBE FREE
AND WORTH HEARING
City Federation Of Women's Clubs,
Marshall County Medical Association,
and SsarchIieht Club Combine in
Bringing Noted Physician to City
Record as Health Commissioners.

DR.. William Augustus Evans, one OF
the most celebrated Of Chicagos physi-
clans, and man who has probably
done more for the public health of his
home city than any other one person, is
to be in this city on Wednesday, Feb
10. when he will give his lecture on
Public Health"
DR.. Evans will appear at the Meth
odist church at 5 o'clock. He is
brought to the city by the City Fed
Grafton of Women's Clubs, the Mar
shall County Medical Society, and the
Searchlight Club of the Y. NJ. c. A. His
lecture will be for the general public,
and will be without admission charge.
DR.. Evans lecture will be we'll worth
hearing. He is member Of the lee
ture bureau Of the American Medical
Association, that was created at the
associations last annual meeting in
June. The object of this lecture bu-
reau is to advise the people of the
country on how to take care of them
selves and avoid preventable ailments.
DR.. Evans is well known to the reading
public thru his department letters pub
lished daily under the head of How
to Keep Well"
Made Name for Self in Chicago.
AS health commissioner of the city
of Chicago from April, 1907, until April
1910, DR.. Evans made a name for him
self thru his accomplishments for the
betterment of the public health. He
went about to improve the condition Of
milk and butter, and waged cam
;pp f,r IL %t,ot za1
the dairy business in Chicago. He also
went after the sanitation of municipal
slaughter houses. and get them renov-
ated. He also discovered that old worm
out horses were being slaughtered I'M
known to the public and offered for
sale as beef in the markets. This he
stopped. In fact he improved sanitary
conditions generally In the big city.
Southerner BY Birth.
DR.. Evans is a southerner, having
been born at Marion. Ala, Aug. 5, 1865
He received his earlier college training
in the Agricultural College OF Missis-
sippi, from which he was graduated in
1883. He studied medicine at the Tu-
lane University of Louisiana, where he
finished in 1885, later took post grad
uate work in the medical department
of the University of Illinois, where he
finished in 1899
DR.. Evans has been practicfng med
icine since his graduation from Tulane
in 1885. He was demonstration of
pathology 1919. and professor, 1886
1908 in the Chicago College Of Physi-
clans and Surgeons; and since 1908
has been a professor in hygiene in the
Northwestern University Medical
School. He is a pathOlogist in the
Cook County hospital, president Of the
attending staff Of the Dunning insti-
tutions, and consulting pathologist Of
the AleXian Bros. hospital. He is a
member of the National Society for the
Prevention Of Tuberculosis, Columbus
Medical Laboratory, American Medi
cal Association, Chicago Pathological
Society. and the Chicago Medical So
ciety. of which he was president,
1923.
DR.. Evans is married. and resides at
was formerly Miss Ida Wiedberger of
Memphis, Tenn. In his religious af-
filiation DR.. Evans is q Baptist.
Form Committee to Take Charge.
At meeting of the presidents and
secretaries of the three organizations
that have been instrumental in bring
ing DR.. Evans to this city, held Thurs
day afternoon, at which also were
present the members of the public
health committee Of the city fedora
ton, an executive committee was
formed to take charge Of the arrange
ments for the meeting. This committee
is composed Of one member Of each of
the organizations.