Dr. Henneage Gibbes

Dr. Henneage Gibbes, of this city, is aew health offieer, to sui Dr. Duffield, his appointment being ded on at a meeting of the healtn board last night. Whlle it w that the appointmenl of i health ofllo ome tip. only a favored Eew knew that sufficieni votes had ilreády heen secured to insure Dr. Gibbes' eleetion. The latter was not a in the sense that he liled a :, .! application, but his selection was asked for by a se. re of the most minent physicians in Detroit. Dr. Gibbes is an Engllshman, nearly of age. He has been in this ibout ten years. He was borní in the "west country" in England. Ilis gramir.it hi' was physician to Queen rlotte and his father was in the ministry. His father svanted him to go into the ministry, but he lik better and went to when he was 14. Then he took up the ,■ of medicine In London, and held inany important posltions In coi wlth WVstminsur hospital medí al college. In 1884 Dr. Gibbea wai appointed one he royal commissioners to ludia to investígate the cholera question Áfter eompleting these labors he wa I .sition of health offleer of tl e port ■■■ Calcutta bj Sir Joseph Parrar, bul u d ü. Dr. Gibl to Ann ' ited chair of tiologj In LSSS, coming directly hondón. Tw i years ago that ohair was lished and since then Dr. Gibbes has been in private prnctice in this i ■ii .. . He le a large, heavy man. with ■s and a bushy growth :, i. ers. Nearly all of his medical ! . been given up to scien[Ific resi atl i han n tive prac1 . . ked in his resignal i' n to be n February lö, which is esignation was accepted in that i so Dr. Gibbes becomes The matter of ...as not mentioned last night.