The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-08-22
Council Unanimously Selects
DR.. G. Windesheim as
the Successor to DR..
Herbert L. Wright.
TO BEGIN WORK At ONCE
Old Battler for Better Health Condi-
tions in Kenosha Will Give Up Pri-
vate Practice to Direct Official
Fight for Better Conditions.

Dr. G.. Windesheim, president of the
Wisconsin State Medical Society and
president Of the Kenosha Board of
Health since its organization, was
elected to succeed DR. Herbert Il.
Wright as commissioner of public
health Of the city of Kenosha at the
meeting of the Common Council on
Monday evening The council unani-
mously accepted the report Of the
Board Of Health and the committee on
health and sanitation. DIR. Winde-
sheim will receive q salary of three
thousand dollars year and an allow
ance for the use of his automobile.
He will not be required to give up his
work as house physician at Willow
brook Sanatorium. This work has been
very close to the heart of DR.. Winde-
sheim and he has been leader in the
great battle against tuberculosis in
the state for years. Under his new
employment he will be given even
better chance to bring into closer
union the health department of the city
and this splendid county institution.
DR.. Windesheim is to begin his dur
Us as commissioners of health at once
and in keeping with the provisions Of
the city health ordinance il will be
necessary for him to give up private
practice in which he has been engaged
in Kenosha for nearly twenty-five
years. His coming to the official posi-
ton in the City Hall will be hailed
with joy by men and women who have
taken a deep interest in big move
ments to safeguard the public health,
but hundreds Of families in which DR..
Windesheim has been the "family
DOCTOR for years will regret that they
may no longer have the benefit of his
expert and kindly services.
DIR. Windesheim has been closely al
lied with the big health movements of
Kenosha for years. He was one of the
first men to demand that Kenosha have
an adequate health department. He
was a counselor when the health or
dinance was drawn and when the first
board Of health was named he was APP
pointed president of the board and
consulted ip the naming of the other
members. For years he has given up
much of his time to the health work
of the city. He is widely known to
workers in this line throughout the
state and has been a leader in many
big movements in Wisconsin to safe
guard the public health. Since the re-
tirement of DR.. Wright from the city
health board Office he has given much
of his time to the duties of spperin-
tendent of the department.
In close touch with great modern
movements for better health in cities,
Dr. Windesheim will undoubtedly seek
an extension Of the work of his depart
ment with view of giving to Kenosha
The best health department in the state.
He has already taken steps to see
TO II that the health Of the school child
rem is more carefully guarded and he
Is now seeking new and better or
ganization of school nurses in order to
have this work thoroughly organized
Cor all the schools in the city.
DR.. Windesheim was the unanimous
choice of both the members of the
Board of Health and the members of
the council committee, these organiza-
lions declining to consider any other
applications after he had announced
that he would accept the Office.