The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-07-13

Dr. William Hallock Park, editor of the bureau of laboratories of the New York City Health Department. will receive the Roosevelt Medal for the year 1885, according to an announcement made last night by Tames R. Garfield, president of the Roosevelt Memorial Association. Dr. Park receives the medal for distinguished service in the admin istration of public office.
 The Medal will be bestowed by the President of the Association as usual at a banquet at Roosevelt House, the Rosevelt's birthplace. at 2S East goth street, New, York, on October 27th, the seventy-seven- tn anniversary of President Roose- velt's birth.
 THE MEDAL
 The Roosevelt Medal, which is three inches in diameter and of solid gold, shows on one side a head Theodore Roosevelt, and on the other a flaming sword with the motto, "If must choose between righteousness" It was designed by James EdTl rTdSeT.
 The committe on whose recom- mendation the Trustees of the As sociation made the award consists of the following: Mrs. Grant La Farge, chairman, F. Trubee Davi- son, Hermann Hagedorn, David Hinshaw, Alexander Lambert, Mrs. James Russell Parsons, Albert Shaw, William Allen White, Owen Mister.
 WILLIAM HALLOCK PARK
 William Hallock Park, who re- ceives the Roosevelt medal for dis tinguished service in the adminis- tration of public office, is physi- clan and scientist and has been di- rector of the Bureau of Laborator- ies of the Health Department of New York City since the bureau was established in 1894. In that capacity he has worked with rare wisdom and devotion for the pub lie health. He ranks as the leading bacteriologist in the United States. His achievements in the field of preventive medicine have ben re- cognized by authorities not only in this country but abroad. The lab oratory which he organized has been described as "the first in the world in which the discoveries of Pasteur and Koch were systemat- ically applied to the protection of public health" and for forty years has remained a model scientific in- stitution, unaffected by political changes in the city government.
 Dr. Parks most conspicuous serv- ice has been in connection with the conquest of diphtheria anti-toxin by a German scientist. Dr. Park was the first to introduce it into the United States and to make it available to the public. Through his scientific researches, on the one hand, and his persistent efforts as an official in the government of his city, on the other, he has been mainly responsible for the reduc- tion of the death-rate from this scourge of childhood, from 295 to lesy than per 100000. He has been a pioneer in the discovery of the part played in the spread of communicable disease by carriers who are themselves not infected.
 Dr. Park has been described as "a living link between science and the common life"; as "a leader in everything that aims to protect human life"; as ''a perfect type of the scientist in the service of the state" In his labors for the protec- ton of the lives of citizens of New York<fhe has labored also for the prQkection of men and women and especially of children throughout 6e world. The principles of public hygiene which he established in his own community have worked as effectively in other cities and other lands. Tn an age of over