The 50th anniversary of the establishment of the National Jewish Hospital in Denver was celebrated last night at a dinner attended by Mayor William O’Dwyer, Dr. Leonard A. Scheele, Surgeon-General of the U.S. Public Health Service, and numerous other dignitaries. The Mayor reported that 40 percent of the patients receiving care for tubercular ailments at the Denver institutions come from New York.
Dr. Scheele, after praising the National Jewish Hospital for the treatment, vocational training, psychic readjustment and rehabilitation it offers to patients, emphasized that the Public Health Service “welcomes the plan to expand the Hospital,”
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