Henry Baird Favill, AB, MD, LL.D., 1860-1916, a ... - University Library

6 HENRY BAIRD FAVILL
Council on Health and Public Instruction of the American
Medical Association. He made the work of the Council
of great importance to the entire community by cooperating
with and coordinating the function of hundreds of organizations
all over the country which were attempting to
improve the physical and social condition of mankind. He
prided himself on his ancestry, and from his maternal grandparents
undoubtedly inherited a love of out-of-door life.
Perhaps it was this which aroused his great interest in the
improvement of living conditions of the poor and of others,
and in the establishment of playgrounds, bathing beaches,
and other conditions intended to improve the general
hygiene of the people.
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Dr. Favill had a magnificent physique and a great brain
was housed in his massive head. He was a manly man.
He had a wonderful mental poise, continued optimism, and
the gentleness of a woman. But with all, he was firm,
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upright, and a decided opponent of all evil.
Your loss and mine seem irreparable, and yet we know
that great as was the place which Favill filled in this and
in the larger community of our country, some one else will
take up his work and do it, if not as adequately as he, will
still do it and the world will move on. But I am quite
sure that the spirit of Favill will live and that we will all
remember what he taught and how he lived and will join
in saying: 'We thank God that he gave us Favill.' "
Following Dr. Billings'
remarks, the chairman read the
following telegram from Charles R. Crane:
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"Dear Mr. Pond:
" I deeply regret that an important and immovable engagement
Washington on Friday evening with another devoted public
servant prevents me from being with you on Saturday and testifying
in person to the feeling we all share of the irreparable loss
Chicago has sustained in the passing away of Dr. Favill.
"The well of his human sympathies, although always being