Anniversary of Montefiore to Be Marked

The fiftieth anniversary of the founding of Montefiore Hospital for Chronic Diseases will be celebrated during the week beginning December 3, it was announced yesterday by Fred M. Stein, president.

The celebration will embrace a dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria on December 6. The feature of the anniversary will be a scientific week in which leading medical authorities will report on advances in the field of chronic diseases during the past half century.

TO TELL OF RESEARCH FINDS

Addresses and exhibits are planned to trace the changing history of the diagnosis and treatment of chronic diseases, and the results of medical research now being carried on at Montefiore Hospital will be told by members of the staff for the benefit of the medical profession.

Complete demonstration of all phases of the work of the hospital, now the largest privately supported institution for chronic diseases in the world, will be offered to visiting physicians during the week.

Montefiore Hospital was founded in 1884 in honor of Sir Moses Montefiore, the famous English Jewish philanthropist, by a group of New York men and women under the leadership of the late Jacob H. Schiff, who became its first president. Originally it was located in a small building at Avenue A and Eighty-fifth street, with provision for fifty patients.

NOW HAS TEN BUILDINGS

From 1888, and for twenty-six years, the hospital was located at Broadway and 138th street, with a capacity of 140 patients. Today, Montefiore Hospital comprises ten buildings with a capacity of 716 beds. It maintains a country sanatorium for the treatment of tubercular patients at Bedford Hills, with a capacity of 222 beds.

The hospital is one of the ninety-one institutions affiliated with the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies.

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