The funeral services for Dr. Abraham Zingher, noted bacteriologist and assistant director of the New York Bureau of Laboratories, will be held at the Zingher home, 47 West Sixty-ninth Street.
Dr Stephen S. Wise of the Free Synagogue will conduct the services.
Dr. Zingher was found dead early Sunday at his laboratory bench in the Willard Parker Hospital. He was forty-two years old.
Dr. Zingher died in the midst of the experimental work which has made him a conspicuous figure among bacteriologists. He helped to perfect the Schick test for diphtheria and directed the inoculation of hundreds of thousands of children in New York City with a serum which is considered 90 per cent protective.
Dr. Zingher was also an attanding physician at the Willard Parker Hospital. He was an assistant professor in bacteriology and hygiene at New York University and Bellevue Medical Schools, and a pediatrist at Post Graduate Hospital.
Dr. Zingher served as a captain at Base Hospital 69 in France during the World War. He advocated a health bureau for the League of Nations, and in recognition of that work received letters from President Wilson and Sir William Osler.
Dr. Zingher was born in Roumania April 21, 1885. Besides his widow he is survived by four children, the youngest six weeks old.
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