New Health Board, picture of Bradford Shinkle

APPOINTED

New Board of Health

To Relieve Public Service

Directors of Sanitary Duties.

Five Prominent Citizens

Selected By Acting Mayor.

They Are Drs. E. W. Walker, Fackler,

and Landis, Major F. J. Jones

and A. Clifford Shinkle.

Next Saturday the Board of Public Service will cease to act as the Board of Health, and next Monday a new independent board, provided for in a recently enacted ordi­nance of Council, and appointed yesterday by Acting Mayor Galvin, will have charge of the Health Department. This independ­ent board will consist of Dr. Edward W. Walker, for five years; Dr. George A. Fackler, for four years; Major Frank J. Jones for three years; Dr. John H. Landis, for two years; and A. Clifford Shinkle, for one year. The successors of each will be appointed for five years.

The Board of Public Service will hold its last regular meeting this morning as a Board of Health. Special meetings will be held during the week, at which arrangements will be made for turning over the Health Department and all connected there-with, to the new board. Assistant City So­licitor Dudley V. Sutphin has prepared the necessary resolutions.

Those who yesterday heard of the appointments were a unit in their commenda­tion of Mr. Galvin's selections.

The Selections Commended.

"I don't think that Mr. Galvin could have found five better men anywhere," declared President Laidlaw, of the Service Board. "Three of them are physicians of the highest character, both as physicians and as gentlemen, while the other two gentlemen are the highest type of business men. I feel confident that no better men could have been selected. And I say that without knowing the politics of any of them."

THE NEW HEALTH BOARD

"It's a great board," said Health Officer Mark A. Brown, enthusiastically when told of the appointments. "Any one who can object to a single one of the appointments must be indeed hard to please."

Dr. Walker, who is an uncle of Congressman Nicholas Longworth is one of the known surgeons in the country. He is a member of the faculty of the Ohio-Miami Medical College.

Dr. Fackler stands equally high as a general practitioner. He is a President of the Medical Directors of the City Hospital, and is a member of the faculty of the Ohio-Miami Medical College.

Major Jones is President of the Little Miami Railroad. He is a Civil War veteran, a member of the Loyal Legion, one of the oldest and best known Yale graduates in the city, and former President of the University Trustees.

Confirmed By Council.

Dr. Landis is one of the best-known of the younger medical prcationers. He was for a long time connected with the medical department of the City Workhouse. He is a brother of Congressman Landis, of Indiana, and Judge Landis, who is best known for having assessed the famous $29,000,000 fine against the Standard Oil Company.

Mr. Shinkle is a son of the late Bradford Shinkle. He is at the head of Shinkle, Wilson & Kreis, wholesale grocers, is a Director of the Fifth-Third National Bank, a Director of the Central Trust and Safety Deposit Company, and President of the Cin­cinnati and Covington Bridge Company. These honors have come to him within the past six weeks — since the demise of his father.

Council unanimously confirmed the ap­pointments at its session yesterday.

The employes of the Health Department were all elated yesterday over the appointments, and it is said will decorate the offices with flowers on the occasion of the new board.

The board is expected to hold a prelimi­nary meeting this week for the purposes of organization. Rumor has it that either J. M. Ray, clerk of the Health Department, or Elmer Prior, clerk of the Waterworks Commission, will be clerk of the board.