Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-03-18
FLANAGAN IS NAMED AS
HEALTH COMMISSIONER
VIII Servo Until Permanent Ap-
pointment Is Made by State
Board In July.
HAS HAD SUCCESSFUL CAREER
Appointee Will Take the Place of DR..
n. ". Freeman, Recently Appoint
Ell EpidemiOlogist in United States
Public Health Service.

br. Roy X Flanagan has been dcs-
iSnated by State Health Commissioner
innion G. Williams to act as assistant
commissioner Of health until "A perma :
neht appointment is made by the State
Board of Health at it's regular meeting
| in July.
Dr. Flanagan takes the place of Or.
y. w. Freeman. recently appointed cpl
deniologist in the United States Public
Health Service. He was promoted from
district health officer of tho First Dis
trlct, comprising the James River and
lledmont sections OF Virginia. He has
peen IN the service of the state for
nearly hve years, joining the health
ONCE In October. 1910, as director OF in-
specttons. He was brought here from
Charlottesviilc where. as first active
health officer OF that city. he did valu-
able constructive work.
KNOWN AS AUTHORITY
on SCHOOI. INSPECTION
DR.. Flanagan is one of tho few rec
oSnized authorities on medical inspcc-
tion OF rural schools in tho United
states. His work in the inspection of
the school children Of Orange, l.oudoun,
warwick. York and Albemarlc Counties
has attracted national attention. lie has
recently been invited 10 read Il paper
on Rural School Hygiene" before the
annual meeting Of the American school
position In San Francisco. The survey
of the Orange County schools was pub
liShed at the request of DR.. i. L. ClaX-
ton, United States Commi ssioner OF Edu-
cation. as n special bulletin of the Bu-
reau of Education. DIR. W. X Tate. of
the George Peabody College for Teach
ers at Nashville. Tenn, is using reprints
OF DR.. Flannagans suggestions for
rural school inspection in his teachers
courses.
Much of the new assistant commits
sioncr's work will be aimed at having
the children whose physical defects
have been discovered by medical in
spection corrected and cared for.
INSPECTED ALL HOTELS
AND SUMMER RESORTS
Other important works carried out
for the Board Of Health by DR.. Flanna-
gan have been tho inspection and GER
tifcation of all the hotels and summer
resorts in Virginia for the protection
and convenience of the travelling public:
and his demonstration in the Ncwca st lie
diphtheria epidemic that Il community
thoroughly permcated with diphtheria
can be given immunity and protection
in less than month. While In Char
lottesvillc. he secured the construction
of the first city abattoir in the towns
of the State, where the meat supply
could he prepared for market under
IDEAL sanitary conditions. stanton is
now considering tho erection of n SINH
lar institution.
DR.. Flanagan was educated at Mil
ler's School and graduated in medicine
at the University Of Virginia in 1894.
He later took two postgraduate courses
at Harvard under DR.. r. G. Cabot. DR..
Flanagan lis chairman Of the Virginia
Child Labor Committee. vice-president
OF the National Association OF Hotel In
spectors, and was president Of the state
Conference of Charities and Corrcc-
lions In 1901. He Is n member of tho
American Public Health Association. OF
the international Congress on Tubercu-
losis. the National Public Health Asso-
citation, the International Congress OF
school Hygiene, the Southern Socio =
logical Conference. the Society for tho
study and Prevention OF Infant Nor
tally, and the Richmond Academy Of
Medicine.