More than 5,000 patients received 111,000 hospital days’ care and 28,000 patients received 177,000 treatments in the out-patient department for the “largest amount of free service” in the history of the Hospital for Joint Diseases, according to Frederick Brown, president of the institution, one of the affiliated hospitals of the New York Federation for the Support of Jewish Philanthropic Institutions.
The hospital, according to the report of its treasurer, L. F. Rothschild, cost $1,800 a day to run or a total of $673,000. Receipts were $448,500 and the balance of $224,500 represent the amount of free service. Of this, $120,000 was contributed by Federation.
Dr. S. S. Goldwater, Commissioner of Hospitals of the City of New York, was the principal speaker at the annual meeting. He spoke on the subject “The City Hospitals in Theory and Practice.”
Dr. J. J. Golub, director of the hospital, is hospital consultant for the planning of the new Hadassah-Hebrew University Hospital in Jerusalem.
The next move in Germany is to set up separate schools for non-Aryans. Will they be allowed to take with them the alphabet which they invented? — The New York Times.
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