Frederick Brown, real estate operator and philanthropist, was re-elected president of the Hospital for Joint Diseases for the fifth consecutive year at a meeting of the hospital board. The Hospital for Joint Diseases is one of the twelve medical agencies affiliated with the Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Societies, and the largest orthopedic hospital in the country.
Other officers elected at the board meeting, whose names were made public yesterday, included Max Wilner, first vice-president; Samuel Arnstein, second vice-president; Louis F. Roths-child, treasurer; Judge William Blau, secretary; and Lewis Straus, chairman of the board.
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