Evening star., 1942-05-10
All District Doctors
To Be Registered by
Society tuesday
Roll Will Be Used
To Determine Duties
In War Emergency

Registration Of all physicians In
Washington to determine the num-
Der who will be available for mill
tary service and those who will be
required to care for the needs of the
civilian population has been set for
Tuesday by the District Procure
ment and Assignment Committee,
DR.. F.. K. McGovern, chairman, an
nounced yesterday.
No similar survey has been made
in the District, the chairman ex-
planned, and it Is not known how
many physicians are engaged in
private practice here It is thought
that about 1000 physicians are Ii
censed to practice in the District.
At the request Of the committee
the Office of Civilian Defense for
the Metropolitan Area is providing
clerks to register physicians at the
following hospitals:
Casualty, Children's, Columbia,
Doctors, Emergency. Episcopal.
Freedmen's, Gallinger, Garfield,
Georgetown, George Washington,
Homeopathic, Providence, Sibley
and st. Elizabeth's.
Washington Problem Unusual
Physicians also may register at
the District Medical Society Build
ing at 1718 M street NV. Registra-
ton will begin at 8 am. and close
at 6 pm. s.
"It is, Of course, essential" said
DR.. McGovern, that We supply as
many doctors as we possibly can
for the military services. However,
Washington presents problems Diff
ferent from those of other large
cities, one being that it has an
ever-increasing population engaged
in war work which must be given
adequate health protection.
"This registration might there
fore well be described as a civilian
defense project, for 1t will provide
the District Procurement and As
signment Committee with q basis
for determining the medical needs
of the community and how they
can be met.
Every physician licensed to prac-
tice medicine in the District is
| called on to respond Fundamentally.
1t is in the interest of the people
of this community as well as the
individual physician that they do
so and I hope that none will fail
to register on May H."
Serving with DR.. McGovern on
the committee are DR.. James Alex
ander Lyon, DIR. James A. Cannon,
DR.. Henry c. Macatee, DR.. A. Ma
gruder Macdonald, DR.. Henry r.
Schneider, DR.. Luther H. Reichel-
derfer, DR.. william Thornwall Davis,
DR.. A. Clagett Gray, DR.. William c.
Comes and Theodore Wiprud, sec
retary of the District Medical So
ciety.
Includes All Doctors.
The committee explained that the
voluntary registration takes in all
| doctors licensed to practice here,
including those connected with the
Public Health Service and the
armed forces.
Registration is expected to take
/ about 10 minutes per person with
the registrar filling out the first two
or three lines for legibility and the
physicians filling out the rest.
| The questions will include age,
military experience, physical condi-
ton, professional experience, educa-
ton, speciality, medical school and
hospital connections, and whether
the registrant is employed part or
full time by any private or public
institution.
The IS clerks who will be assigned
to the registration will be given
their instructions at a meeting at
the medical society tomorrow. Doc
| tors who are out of town on Tues
day will be allowed to register at
! the medical society Office on their
| return.