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Dr. Ratnoff, American Jewish Physicians Committee Head, Dies at 72; Funeral Today

December 26, 1947
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Dr. Nathan Ratnoff, founder and president of the American Jewish Physicians Committee, died here at 72. He will be buried tomorrow.

Dr. Ratnoff was instrumental in organizing a committee to found a medical school at the Hebrew University. He was also the founder of the old Jewish Maternity Hospital in New York which later merged with Beth Israel Hospital where he was the medical director for 15 years.

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