Daily Kennebec journal., 1919-12-19

mas been In cnarge or the northern
district, will continue as district
health officer for Upper Penobscot
and Lower Aroostook counties, and
DR.. H. D. Worth of Bangor. formerly
head of the southeastern district will
, continue in Lower Penobscot and
Piscataquis counties. DR.. A. p. Pratt
until recently was district health Of
ficer for the southwestern district but
resigned to take position in the
health officers school in Boston.
No appointment has yet been made
for the district comprising the coun-
ties of Hancock and Washington.
DR.. c. F. Kendall. the new district
health officer for York and Cumber-
land counties. will make his head
quarters at Biddeford which is also
his native city. and fortunately so
centrally located as to make logical
center for his field.
He was born in Biddeford in 1876
and educated in the public schools
there, receiving his college training
at Bowdoin from which he gradual
ed with the degree of A. B. He
graduated from the Maine Medical
School in 1901, was inferno at the
Maine General hospital at Portland
for one year and has had consider
able experience with smallpox, as he
had charge of ridding the town Of
Jonesport of that disease while a
member of the board of health there.
DR.. Kendall served seven months
in France during the World war and
was for 20 months in the service Of
the Medical Corps. U. S. A. He was
for II years a member of the Maine
National Guard.
DR.. E. P. Goodrich, who win take
up his headquarters in Lewiston, as
district health officer for Androscog-
gin, Oxford and Franklin counties
was born in Newburg. Penobscot
county, in 1874. and besides the regu-
lar town schools, attended Hampden
Academy. He received his medical
education in the Maine Medical
School at Brunswick. later taking a
course at Johns. Hopkins University
training at the Maryland General
hospital Since 1896 he has been
practising medicine at Winterport.
DIR. ]. W. Laughlin. health officer
for Sagadahoc, Lincoln. Knox and
Waldo counties, will continue to make
his headquarters at Damariscotta,
his home town. He is veteran Of
the World War. having served in the
U. s. Medical Corps, entering the
service June 20, 1917. He was placed
in charge Of the pneumonia and
tuberculosis wards at Camp Wads-
worth, S. c. After being transferred
to Camp Devens. he had charge of
the contagious department which in
cluded all meningitis cases. He
went overseas as chief of the medical
service Of Evacuation Hospital No.
81 and was promoted to major and
given charge of a hospital unit. DR..
Laughlin was born at Brooklyn, New
York. in 1871. He graduated from
the Bowdoin Medical School in 1900
and later took course in internal
medicine in New York
DR.. H. G. Hutchins Of Mechanic
Falls, who will make his headquar-
ters in Presque Isle, has been an Of
| ficer of the local health board of his
home town for several years and has
had practical experience in public
health work concerning communica-
BILE diseases. In preparing for his
profession. he took special work at
Bowdoin in chemistry, biology. bac-
teriology and miscroscopy. He has
served as inferno in the Mothers
and Babies hospital in New York
and during his years Of practice has
kept himself efficient in the latest
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