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Obituary. 
f  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
\      April,  1885. 
ing  be  prepared  to  report  the  sanitary  status  of  their  State  or  locality,  and 
what  steps  have  been  taken  to  improve  the  same,  and  to  prevent  the  intro- 
duction of  disease. 
All  of  which  is  respectfully  submitted. 
Henry  B.  Baker, 
Secretary  State  Board  of  Health  of  Michigan. 
H.  P.  Waecott, 
Chairma7i  Health  DeiJartment  of  Massachusetts. 
S.  S.  Herrick, 
Secretary  State  Board  of  Health  of  Louisiana. 
Peter  H.  Bryce, 
Secretary  Provincial  Board  of  Health,  Ontario,  Canada. 
John  H.  Rauch, 
Secretary  State  Board  of  Hecdth  of  Illinois.  . 
Committee. 
OBITUARY. 
Samuel  Simes,  a  graduate  of  the  Philadelphia  College  of  Pharmacy, 
class  1838,  died  in  this  city,  March  Oth,  of  apoplexy.  He  was  for  many 
years  in  business  at  the  corner  of  Twelfth  and  Chestnut  streets,  and  iden- 
tified himself  with  the  Pennsylvania  Salt  Manufacturing  Company,  whose 
treasurer  he  was.  He  reached  the  ripe  age  of  71  years.  His  thesis  on 
Daturia  was  published  in  Vol.  V  of  this  Journal  (1833) ;  he  originated  tine- 
tura  cinchonte  ferrata  in  1853,  and  in  1855  contributed  to  the  Journal  a 
paper  on  chocolate  and  iron  lozenges. 
Edward  Zeitler,  Ph.G.,  class  1858,  died  in  Philadelphia,  March  3d,  of 
consumption.  He  was  the  son  of  the  first  manufacturer  of  matches  in 
this  city,  and  was- for  a  long  time  established  as  a  pharmacist  in  the  north- 
eastern section  of  Philadel])hia. 
Robert  W.  Dickson,  Ph.G.,  class  1862,  died  March  18th,  of  cirrhosis 
of  the  liver.  He  was  for  some  time  engaged  in  the  drug  business,  and 
more  recently  he  was  in  the  employ  of  Powers  &  Weightman. 
William  H.  Crawford  died  suddenly  at  St.  Louis,  March  17th,  of  fatty 
degeneration  of  the  heart,  about  an  hour  after  he  had  left  his  place  of  busi- 
ness, in  apparently  good  health.  He  was  born  in  Donegal,  Ireland,  and 
when  quite  young  emigrated  with  his  parents  to  the  United  States,  the 
familj''  living  in  Wheeling  before  they  came  to  St.  Louis,  where  the 
deceased  entered  tlie  drug  store  of  S.  D.  Hendall,  and  in  1861  started  in 
business  for  himself.  He  took  an  active  part  in  the  organization  of  the  St. 
Louis  College  of  Pharmacy,  his  interest  in  the  institution  remaining  una- 
bated to  the  close  of  his  life.  In  1864  he  became  a  member  of  the  Ameri- 
can Pharmaceutical  Association,  served  as  local  secretary  to  the  meeting 
held  in  1871,  and  as  one  of  the  vice-presidents  in  1878-1879,  and  for  24  years 
has  faithfully  acted  as  authorized  agent  of  the  Association. 
