Class of 1872

Dr. Charles Loomis Dana, whose recently won British honors were described in the November issue of this magazine, has become recognized as the originator of a private agency for the improvement of the Public Health Relations of New York which during the past fifteen years has rendered that city increasingly important service. This agency consists of a committee of the New York Academy of Medicine, first appointed fifteen years ago upon the initiative of Dr. Dana, whose function it is to advise the Health Department of the city in respect to the best ways and means of affecting its objects and to cooperate with it, whenever requested, to secure the enforcement of its regulations. It is clear that such an unofficial body of medical experts may render the Health Department of any great city very great assistance, and the annual report for 1926 of this committee, a pamphlet of 35 pages, shows that it has become recognized by the city of New York as an important though unofficial agency for promoting the public health, and testifies to the extent and great variety of its services.

When Dr. Dana, having served as chairman of this committee for fifteen years, recently resigned, his colleagues tendered him a complimentary dinner in recognition of his valuable services in initiating and successfully maintaining this new agency for promoting the public health of the city.

Secretary, Nashua, N. H.