Completion of the $2,000,000 building and improvement fund of Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, was reported Sunday at the annual meeting of the board of trustees of the Hospital. The fund is to be used for a semi-private pavilion to be erected on the site of an old pavilion now being demolished. The new building will contain 120 beds. The subscriptions to the fund were made over a period of four weeks, it was announced.
Announcement was made of the resignation of Dr. S. S. Goldwater, director of the hospital for a period of twenty-five years, interrupted only by his service to the city as Health Commissioner under Mayor John Purroy Mitchel. Dr. Goldwater was appointed consultant to the board of trustees. He has been succeeded by Dr. Joseph Turner.
During 1928 the hospital treated 12,065 patients. There were 206,791 outpatient department consultations, Leo Arnstein, acting president of the board, reported.
Total expense of the hospital for 1928 was $1,727,501.44. Of this amount, $473,443 was received from the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies.
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