Dr. Park Out

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 his laboratory was the first in the world to apply the discoveries of Pasteur and Koch to public health; because for 41 years he managed to keep his laboratory out of the hands of New York City politicians.

Two years ago Dr. Ralph Stewart Muckenfuss, 36, Washington University bacteriologist, achieved national reputation by managing the research which isolated the viruses which caused the epidemic of encephalitis in St. Louis (TIME, Sept.11, 1933 et ante). Last week Dr. Park, through Health Commissioner Dr. John Levi Rice, invited Dr. Muckenfuss to transfer to Manhattan and understudy until he could pass civil service examinations for Dr. Park's directorship.

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