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DR. NATHAN SINAI
A public official of Stockton who
enjoys the esteem and confidence of everyone, is Nathan Sinai, the popular
health officer of the city, who was born, a native son, in Stockton on November
28, 1894, the youngest in a family of seven children born to Max and Sophia
Sinai, early settlers of Stockton, where the father has been a merchant for
many years. Nathan Sinai attended the
public schools and was graduated from the Stockton high school with the class
of 1911. After that he matriculated at
the University of California, and in 1915 stepped forth as a graduate of that
world-famous institution. Becoming a
veterinary surgeon, he went in for a general practice of his profession, and
when he had established an enviable reputation he entered the employ of the
Public Health Service as a food inspector.
He was by this time just the man wanted for efficient work in the World
War; and having taken the U. S. Army examinations in 1917, he was appointed
second lieutenant and later first lieutenant in the Veterinary Corps at Chicago
and Camp Kearney, and was in charge of food inspections. In 1918 he was honorably discharged,
whereupon he returned to Stockton and resumed work as city food inspector.
In October, 1921, Dr. Sinai was
appointed by the City Commissioners health officer for Stockton; and his
assumption of the responsibilities involved was the more interesting because he
was the youngest man to hold that office in the state. The appointment met with general commendation
and endorsement, and in the trying interval Dr. Sinai has more than made
good. Under his administration the
sanitary condition of the city has greatly improved, and Stockton is more than
ever able to make its appeal as a home center.
Dr. Sinai is a member of the Foresters of America, Reno Lodge No. 597,
B. P. O. E., as well as Stockton Lodge of Odd Fellows.
Transcribed by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Tinkham, George
H., History of San Joaquin County, California , Pages
1486-1487. Los Angeles, Calif.: Historic
Record Co., 1923.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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