REPORT

OF THE

Health Officer of the Port of New York

FOR

THE PERIOD OF JULY 1, 1916, TO JUNE 30, 1917

LELAND E. COFER, M. D.

Health Officer

TRANSMITTED TO THE LEGISLATURE JANUARY 23, 1918

ALBANY

J. B. LYON COMPANY, PRINTERS

STATE OF NEW YORK

DEPARTMENT OF THE HEALTH OFFICER OF THE PORT OF NEW YORK

Health Officer

LELAND E. COFER, M. D.

Senior Deputy Health Officer.... FREDERICK P. LEE, M. D.

Assistant Medical Officer.

(Appointed Chief Medical Officer on June 16, 1917.)

(Transferred to position of Chief Medical Officer, June 16, 1917.)

RICHARD A. SHIELDS, M. D.

PROFESSOR JOSHUA M. VAN COTT, M. D., Chairman, Professor of Pathology and Bacteriology at Long Island Medical College; Director of the Department of Histology and Pathology of Hoagland Laboratory; Pathologist, Long Island Medical College; Chairman of Committee on Public Health, New York State Medical Society, and Chairman of Committee on Public Health, Kings County Medical Society.

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PROFESSOR FRANCIS CARTER WOOD, M. D., B. S., Secretary, Director of Cancer Research, George Crocker Special Research Fund, Columbia University; Attending Physician and Director of the Laboratories, St. Luke's Hospital, New York; Consulting Pathologist Vassar Brothers Hospital, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.; Lincoln Hospital, New York; author of " Clinical Pathology," "Chemical and Microscopical Diagnosis ", and other scientific works; member of the American Medical Association, Association of American Medical Physicians, The New York Academy of Medicine, the New York Pathological Society, the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, and the American Association for Cancer Research.

PROFESSOR JAMES EWING, M. D., A. M., Sc. D., Professor of
Pathology in Cornell University Medical College, leading writer
on Pathology and Bacteriology and kindred branches of medical
science; member of American Physician's Society, American
Pathological and Bacteriological Society, American Cancer
Society, National Association for the Study of Tuberculosis,
New York Academy of Medicine and National Pathological
Society.

PROFESSOR JOHN H. LARKIN, M. D., Associate Professor of
Pathology of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia
University; Pathologist of St. Vincent, St. Francis and Syden-
ham Hospitals, New York City, and Director of Pathological
Laboratories of the Department of Public Charities.
PROFESSOR WILLIAM HALLOCK PARK, M. D., formerly Dean,
New York University, University of Bellevue Hospital Medical
College; Director, Bureau of Laboratories, Department of
Health of the City of New York; Professor of Bacteriology and
Hygiene, New York University and Bellevue Hospital Medical
College; member of Association American Physicians, Associa-
tion Pathologists and Bacteriologists, American Public Health
Association, The American Physicians' Society, the American
Pathological and Bacteriological Society and the New York
Academy. of Medicine.