HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolutions - 1973.06.07 - 15478Miscellaneous Resolution June 7, 1973
BY: COMMITTEE ON ORGANIZATION - Bernard D. Berman
IN RE: MEMORIAL FOR CONSTANTINE PETER MEHAS, M. D.
TO THE OAKLAND COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
Mehas was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on July 19, 1906. He attended school
there and graduated from the University of Cincinnati Medical School in 1936. He interned
at St. Mary's Hospital in Cincinnati and did postgraduate work at the British Medical College
in London.
Dr. Mehas served at the Oakland County Tuberculosis Sanatorium from 1942 to 1952
and was its Medical Director for much of that time. During his tenure as Director a number
of advances in the treatment of TB patients in Oakland County were begun. The first out-
patient treatment programs in the use of lung-collapse therapy were instituted under Dr. Mehas'
direction in the Royal Oak Health Facility and the Union Lake Hospital. He also pioneered
in the use of drug treatment in tuberculosis and was involved in the clinical trials of streptomycin
For tuberculosis treatment.
Patients who were formerly condemned to long range illnesses or death were able to be
cured or have their disease arrested to leave the hospital and lead productive lives. Former
patients fondly remember Dr. Mehas' kindness and medical and spiritual stimulation to enable
them to endure their illness.
Dr. Mehas was deeply involved in the care and treatment of alcoholic patients. He
developed a treatment group at the hospital. He continued his involvement with Alcoholics
Anonymous throughout his life-time, speaking to groups throughout Oakland County.
He continued to serve the County as TB consultant, seeing patients in the Health
Department Out-Patient Clinics and as a consultant to the Alcohol Program of the Health
Department until just prior to his death.
Dr. Mehas was a Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians, a 30-year member
of the Oakland County Medical Society and Michigan State Medical Society. He was on the
Oakland County Tuberculosis Association Board of Trustees since 1946 and served as its
president from 1956 to 1958.
He had been on the staff of St. Joseph's Mercy Hospital and William Beaumont Hospital.
He was in the private practice of medicine with offices in Birmingham.
He is survived by his wife, Phyllis and four children, Margo, Andrea, Anita and
Michael; five grandchildren, one sister and one brother.
Dr. Mehas will be long remembered by his fellow employees in County government,
both past and present, and by his friends and patients. He served Oakland County and his
fellow man well.
Mr. Chairman, I move that the foregoing memorial resolution be spread upon the
minutes of this meeting and that the County Clerk forward a certified copy, affixed with the
Seal of the County of Oakland, to his surviving wife Phyllis.
SPECIAL MEMORIAL COMMITTEE
Paul E. Kasper, Chairman
Tace F. Gabler, Jr., Vice Chairman
Bernard D. Berman, County Commissioner, Dist.