Baron Henri de Rothschild, who is now on a visit to America with his son, James Henri, stopping at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, is a Commander of the French Order of the Legion of Honor. He is a Doctor of Medicine and a Member of the Board of Directors of the Nord Railway Company of France.
Baron Henri de Rothschild belongs to the French family of Rothschild. His father, the late Baron James de Rothschild, was not exclusively occupied by financial affairs, but had achieved at the time of his death a prominent position in the world of letters, as well as a reputation for philanthropy.
Baron Henri is a Doctor of Medicine. He has published works on the promotion of infantile health, on milk and its production, on the glands of the throat and their maladies, on burns and particularly their treatment by “Ambrine.” He also published a treatise on infantile pathology. During the past thirty years he has been active in social work.
Amongst the social works which have come within the sphere of his activities, the hospital founded by him in 1896 at Rue Marcadet, Paris, and which bears his name. The special object of this institution is the medical and surgical needs of the poorer classes of a large and populous district of Paris, as well as of members of the staffs employed in his various industrial and agricultural centers. He created in Paris the philanthropic work for the supply of milk, which was the first undertaking for providing fresh milk to the working population of Paris. This organization distributes tickets for milk to the indigent ###or of the city.
On his estate of Vaux de Cernay, he as the first to apply in France on a large scale the milking of cows by mechanical means through the American ###fa-Laval apparatus. He also organized the distribution of wine on a ###lanthropic basis, which allows the working classes of Paris to obtain a wine of good quality, the result also being the reorganization of the wine industry in the South of France.He was the founder of the “Institut Pierre Curie” for the treatment of cancer by means of Radium, as well as of works at St. Denis near Paris, which furnished supplies gratuitously to the Pierre Curie Institute since before the war. It was this factory that supplied the radium necessary for the treatment of wounds of a certain type during the war. The working of this factory is in the hands of the Societe des Traitements Chimiques, founded by Baron Henri. The laboratories are equipped for the study of industrial chemistry.
Baron Henri de Rothschild is also interested in literature and the drama and has produced a number of plays.
Baron Henri’s son, James Henri, is on his second visit to the United States. He was a pilot aviator during the war and received the “Croix de Guerre.” His wife, the former Mademoiselle Claude Dupont, is accompanying him.
The purpose of their visit to America, Mr. Rothschild stated to a representative of the “Jewish Daily Bulletin,” is to study recent scientific and industrial developments in the United States and to make connections with persons who might be interested in the model theatre which he is having built in Paris. He will discuss methods of making known in France the various artistic and literary works of America.
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