Dr. Arthur J. White Dies Very Suddenly.Head of Mattapan Hospital for Consumptives.At College Made Sensational Run in Football Game. Dr. Arthur J. White, superintendent of the Mattapan Consumptives Hospital for the past 14 years, died suddenly yesterday afternoon at 4:30 at his home on River street, situated on the hospital estate, from heart failure. He had been ill for six Weeks, but attended to his numerous duties and his family and friends believed him to be on the way to recovery. Dr. White was born in Dorchester 52 years ago. He was a graduate of Boston College and Harvard Medical School, class of 1902. At college he was prominent in athletics and was captain of the football team. His sensational run of 85 yards in a game during his career attracted considerable I attention at the time. After graduating from medical school Dr. White became attached to the Boston City Hospital on March 11, 1907, and later was made assistant superintendent of the main hospital. On October 19, 1914, he was placed in charge of the sanitarium in Mattapan. Dr. White, in his entire hospital service always considered it a duty and privilege to lead the life devoted to humanities call, and while he was superintendent of the Mattapan Hospital, despite his arduous duties,, he never found the work irksome, always administering to the patients In a modest but cheerful manner. What few pleasures he enjoyed, as an aid to better work for the people he served, were provided by membership in the Wollaston Golf Club, B. A. A. and Clover Club. He was always devoted to his family. He was a member of the Massachusetts Medical Association and American Medical Association. Dr. White is survived by his wife, Mrs. Alice C. (McManus) White; one son, Arthur Jr; three sisters, Mrs. Charles F. Stack of Hyde Park, Mrs. John A. Brewin of Everett, and Miss Grace L. White of Dorchester, teacher in the Hyde Park schools, and three brothers. Dr. Daniel White, veterinary; Dr. David L. White, dentist In Peabody square, and Stephen, a teacher in the South Boston schools. The funeral will take place Saturday morning with a requiem mass at St Gregory's Church, Dorchester Lower Mills. Interment will be in St. Josephs Cemetery in West Roxbury.
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