A WOMAN AS CITY BACTERIOLOGIST.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 422, 3 February 1909, Page 3

A WOMAN AS CITY BACTERIOLOGIST.

Miss E. Marion .Wade, B S., has been appointed b"y the Boston Board of Health as Bacteriologist and chemist'at tho laboratory of the health department. Miss Wade was honour graduate in arts in tho department of physical and natural science of Trinity University Toronto, in 1891.' Coming to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she took special courses m air analysis and in water and food analysis, and the special summer courses in bacteriology at the Harvard Medical School, in 1907. For three months she was connected with tho laboratory of the Board of Health as voluntary assistant, taking hold of the work with remarkable;' zeal and skill. During this time she was' assistant instructor in the Institute of Technology in' sanitary chemistry, m the department of which Mrs. Ellen H. Richards is head. At present she is analytical chemist in the research laboratory of the General Electric Company at Schenectady, N.Y. Thus she comes to her future position not only well experienced in general matters pertaining to her science, but with special training in tho laboratory itself, which is to bo her field 'of work. M:ss Wade is> strongly recommended' by\ her associates at • the institute and at the laboratory. The salary tfi her new position is 1200 dol'ars per year. The appointment; was wado by tht. health commissioners, with the approval of Mayor Hibbard. Miss Wade Will succeed Dr. Burdett L. Arms, who wag recently appointed director of tho laboratory upon the resignation of Burt R. Richards.