The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-08-08
DR.. INCHES
TO REMAIN
IN DETROIT
War 3 G c k Ons, But
Health Officer Is Bad
ly Needed Here
TO BE IN SERVICE
RIGHT AT HOME

Detroit Will not need 20 looh Tor "a
new health orlcer Dr. J w Inches
is going 20 stay.
This announcement Is not official.
but i; Is practically certain Dr
Inches has been commissioned a
captain IN the Detroit College Of
Medicine base hospital unit He is
Military doctor who has studied
military methods % treating pa
tienis on several continents and Is
regarded ar an expert In that line
Of work bur the board az health
feels that q needs him here
For several weeks Dr Inches has
been. not twixt love and duty. but
twixt two duties The administra
tors OF health affairs "a well as mos'
OF DIT Inches personal friends have
been trying 20 persuade him that
his duty was here rather than in
Europe The health officer has said
repeatedly that he would sacrifice
few years from the end OF his life
10 be able 20 spend the intervening
time on Europe's war-torn fields. but
he has about decided 70 yield TO
pressure and remain here. quite
against his desires
Before the end OF the week he VIII
submit, his anal answer 10 the board
% health. bar h is almost certain
that II will b. a reluctant consent
10 remain This Is based upon
conversation reporter for The
Times had with him Tuesday morn
Ing
The health officer ls guided in
reaching HIS determination % s'av
and hght in Detroit by the fact that
he is practically In charge OF the
erection Of whai is 20 b. one ~ the
finest tuberculosis HOSPITALS IN ithe
world While ~ IA distinctivcly a
Detroit project. N is likely 10 hc
established ~ point outside OF
Wavnc county ~ suitable site can
be found and II the law department
81 ths ci;y decides that II Is legal
90 build The hospital outside the
city.
About $1,000. 600 will be expended
for THIS institution Dr Inches, who
Will be In charge. saws 10 VIII be
serving ncle Sam quite as VOL as
II ne were with a base hospital 10
Europe because he expects many
Detroit soldiers Will return with
"tuherculosis wounds This is a
new Kind ~ wound by product
az the present war II Us charged
that the Germans are treating their
bullets with tuberculosis germs
amonc other Infamous things and
IL IS feared that Americas tuber
culosis hospitals Will have a hard
time for the next fcw years For
that reason Dr Inches had about re-
concned himself 20 remaining
Meanwhile 10 will serve tho mill
tary forces OF the United States in
occurring 20 medical societies thru
on Michigan under the auspices OF
the Michigan state committee OF
national defense he expects 10 don
his captains uniform next week and
90 wear 10 constantly during the war
He VIII 20 to every large city IN
the state and instruct medical 80
cicfice as 20 their duties. which VIII
DO greatly enlarged ls result nt
the war and the patients who r.
turn from the trenches Whether
he goes abroad or remains here be
will DO in tho government sorYi"c.
II he finally decides % stay he VIII
be in thc city service and in the
government service AZ he same
time. The wearing OF the uniform
will he obligatory
Dr Burt r Shurly. director Of the
Detroit College OF Medicine base
hospital unit is now wearing his
uniform sveu in tho operating room
90 h. own hospital. since he be
cam, licuteuantcolonel