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1865–2015 · city board to county department
The line runs from a city board of three men to a two-office county department, and the middle of it is still gapped. South Bend's first city council, on 12 June 1865, elected Dr. I. N. Green, Clement Studebaker and Norman Eddy to the city's Board of Health (Chapman, 1880). The 1883 city directory prints the board as Dr. John Maurer, Almond Bugbee and Stephen D. Stach. Indiana's 1913 law first permitted full-time county health officers, and eleven counties had appointed them by the time of the national survey of state boards (Chapin). The city's own officer in the influenza autumn is banked: Dr. Emil G. Freyermuth, South Bend's city health officer in October 1918. The modern department's own annual report (St. Joseph County Department of Health, 2015 Annual Report) prints its officers and its footprint: health officers Dale D. Deardorff, MD (1 January – 19 October 2015) and Luis Galup, MD (interim from 19 October 2015); a main office at 227 West Jefferson Boulevard, South Bend, and a branch office at 219 Lincolnway West, Mishawaka; a board appointed by the County Commissioners and the Mayors of South Bend and Mishawaka.
The residue is stated expressly: the first-officer-to-county-department succession — the dated line from the first county health officer to the present department, and the department's own tables — was not dug whole. The settler stands named and current: the St. Joseph County Department of Health's annual reports and its officer succession, in the department's own publications.
Principal sources: Chapman (1880), Part 85 (first-hand); Chapin, survey of state boards of health (Archive.org, first-hand); St. Joseph County Department of Health, 2015 Annual Report (in.gov, first-hand).