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Dr. Robert E Plunkett Dies at 77 in Troy Hospital
Dr. Robert E. Plunkett 77 a renowned tuberculosis control expert and former assistant state health commissioner died after a long illness at Leonard Hospital. A Troy native and Albany Medical College alumnus he held key public health posts from 1925 to 1947 and received the 1965 Herman M Biggs Award. He is survived by a wife a daughter a son two sisters and ten grandchildren. Funeral arrangements set for Saturday with Solemn Requiem Mass at St Augustine's Church.
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Robert E. Plunkett
Leonard Hospital
Plunkett
Fourth Ave
Herman M. Biggs
Troy
John D
Elizabeth Purcell Plunkett
Albany Medical College
Old Lakeview
Whitehall
Medical Corps
U.S. Army
Washington County
State Health Department
U.S
Pan-American Tuberculosis Union
Cordoba
Argentina
International Tuberculosis Union
Lisbon
Portugal
Dominican Republic
Colombia
American Legion
National
Executive Branch
Hoover Commission
Arizona
Cook County
Commission of Tuberculosis Control
American Board of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
National Tuberculosis Association
Rensselaer County
American Medical Association
American Public Health Association
State Medical Society
American Trudeau Society
State Association of Superintendents and
St Augustine’s Church
Hollis S. Ingraham
Health Department
New York State
Rose Wilson
Peter F. McCarthy
Robert W. Plunkett
John Randall
William Meigs
Florida
William A. Toohey
114Th Street
2Nd Avenue
St. Augustine’s Church
St. John's] Cemetery