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NOTED NEGRO PHYSICIAN RANSK SECOND In Civil Service Examination for Police Surgeon.
CECILIA THEATRE New York, aug. With the fof No. 161 West 75th St. will unusually high mark of 89. 10 outbe moved up a notch, and the of a possible 100 ponits, a Negro, Commissioner then will select a Dr. Louis Wright, of No. 218 man for the second vacancy.
West 139th St. ranks second in the list made public yesterday Commissioner Warren yeșterof those who have passed the day set at rest any doubts that civil service competitive exami his record justifies it.
Dr. Wright will be appointed if nation for police surgeon.
Provided Dr. Wright passes Well, why not? he asked the medical test Monday, and is emphatically. If Dr. Wright appointed by Police Commis record shows nothing against sioner Warren to one of the him, of course ll make him a two vacancies existing at pres police surgeon. In a matter of ent, he will be the first man of this kind don allow race, rehis race to hold such a position ligion or politics to interfere.
in the department.
We have many excellent colored policemen, and they are still total of 176 physicians took coming in.
the examination on Oct. 18, 19 and 20 last, but only twenty six The salary of a police surgeon are on the published list of those, is 4, 400 a year. His duties are eligible for certification by the to look after the physical welfare Civil Service Commission. The of the policemen under his high man in the list is Dr. Ralph charge.
Colp. of No 164 West 79th St. Father Noted Physician who scored 89. 50 out of the possible 100, or only 40 of a point Dr. Wright was born in La higher than Dr. Wright. Third Grange, Ga. thirty seven years in the list is Dr Morris Green, ago, but his father, a noted phyof 50 East 86th St. with a mark sician, moved soon afterward to of 85. 90.
Atlanta, where Dr. Wright was reared and educated at the Cerificate to Warren public schools.
According to the civil service He attended Clark University regulations, after the routine a Negro college at Atlanta, from medical examination for physical which he received the degree of fitness, the first three men on bachelor of arts in 1911. His fathe list will be certified to Com ther, in the meantime, had died missioner Warren, who is then and his mother remarried. His empowered to select one for the step father was also a physician.
fist vacancy. After this appoint Young Wright, who had set his ment is made, the fourth man mind on following in his father on the list, Dr. John Garlock, and step father footsteps, entered the Harvard University Medical School.
His record there was one of consistent excellence. When he was graduated in 1915 it was in fourth position in the class of 100.
He served his interneship, in the Freeman Hospital in Washington. In 1916 he returned to Atlanta, Ga. where Dr. Wright his step father. When the United States entered the war he enlisted and served eighteen months, the last eight of them in France as a captain in the Medical Corps.
At the end of the war he came to New York and accepted a position with the Board of Health, which he relinquished in order to engage in clinical work for the Harlem Hospital.
In 1925 he was made a regular member of the hospital staff as one of the four adjunct assistant visiting surgeons, a post which he still holds.
Expert in Research Work He has done much work in research and experimental fields.
Among other things he originated, in 1918, the intradermal method of smallpox vaccination.
which has since almost entirely replaced the older incision method. The virus by this method is inserted by needle between the two layers of skin instead of in a scratch made in the skin.
The older method was unsatisfactory because it was impossible to control the exact amount of virus used.
He is a member of the New York County and State Medical Associations, the American Medical Association and is president of the North Harlem Medical Society, which has about 100 Negro members.
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