Dr. William Hallock Park, director of New York City's bacteriological laboratory since 1894, is nine months younger than Dr. Simon Flexner (see above). Dr. Park does not want to resign his job. But municipal pension and compulsory retirement systems will force Dr. Park out within two years.
Last week the Roosevelt Memorial Association anticipated that event by promising to give Dr. Park the Roosevelt Medal for 1935 next October because, by introducing diphtheria antitoxin to this country, he reduced diphtheria deaths among New York City children from 295 to three per 100,000; because...
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