WILKES-BARRE MORTUARY RECORD,

FOR YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 1, 1911, as reported to the city clerk.

Totals by Months. 117 88 85 110 96 83 68 124 117 81 99 79 1148 1165 1106 1069 1109 881 868 945 819 734

*Other diseases, not included in the classification above, but included in the totals, are as follows: Asthma 10, alcoholism 5, abortion 1, anemia 10, abscess 6, arterio sclerosis 1, atelectasis 5, auto intoxication 1, complication of diseases 14, cyanosis 1, cystitis 2, confinement 3, diabetes 6, exhaustion 3, eclampsia 3, erysipelas 2, epilepsy 2, gangrene 2, gallstones 1, goitre I, laryngitis 2, locomotor ataxia 1, lockjaw 2, malarial fever 1, malnutrition 2, menorrhagia 1, myelitis 1, pulmonary oedema 29, ovarian cyst I, obstruction of the bowels 5, pelvic cellulitis 1, pleurisy 4, pulmonary embolism 2, parenchymatous 1, ptomaine poisoning 1, rheumatism 5, rupture of blood vessel 1, spinal curvature 1, stenosis of the pyloras 1, suicide 3, strangulated hernia 4, ulcer 2, unknown causes 7, whooping cough 4.

OBITUARY.

MARIS GIBSON, M. D.

Born near Doylestown, Bucks County, Pa., October 31, 1841; died June 20, 1911, in Wilkes-Barre.

The Gibsons were Scotch-Irish Presbyterians; and on his mother's side, the Cadwalladers, were Quakers.

Some one

Such was his heredity, such his environment. has said you cannot develop a gentleman in two generations. Everyone who knows the history of Pennsylvania knows how much these two great ancestral lines have had to do in making Pennsylvania what she is to-day in her industrial greatness, her predominance in intellectual pursuits, in the refinement and attractiveness of her people, and her prominence in the affairs of government.

His early education was obtained in the Public Schools, in the Academy at New Britain, Bucks County and Upland Normal Institute.

Later he was a student at Madison University three years and at Rochester one year. His Medical Degree was granted by the University of Pennsylvania.

He first settled for the practice of his profession in Chester County, which, like Bucks, is one of the three original counties founded by William Penn.

In the year 1882 he came to Wilkes-Barre.

He

Dr. Gibson was not a man of varied acquaintance. cared not for "the madding crowd's ignoble strife" but to the friends who knew him well to whom he cared to reveal himself, he was a quiet, scholarly gentleman, a wise counselor, a steadfast friend.

His greatest pleasure in life was found in his family and his library, and his medical library was the most up-to-date col

lection that the writer has ever known. Years ago when he was practicing in a modest hamlet in Chester County, the excellence of his library was remarkable. He never allowed the first edition of a book to remain on his shelves when a second edition came out-and this characteristic followed him through life. And he knew his books; the best thoughts and most modern ideas of the profession were at his command, which made him the wise counsellor, the safe physician.

Truly he belonged to the "Old School"-he was a gentleman of the Old School-a Doctor of the Old School-but how attractive his personality! Every recollection of him is a delight, every memory a treasure, and it will be a sorry day for the medical profession and for the human family, should the mad fury of commercialism and unethical practice rob us of such characters as Maris Gibson.

It was my privilege to know him from his early Chester County days and to know him well. And my regret is that while I pay this modest tribute to his memory, I have lost a friend, a friend whose place never can be filled.