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Title: Journal of roentgenology
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Western Roentgen Society
Subjects: Radiology
Publisher: Iowa City, Iowa : Western Roentgen Society, 1918-1919
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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ard Temperance Association, which insuresthe highest moral and professional standards in its man-agement. The Roentgen laboratory is under the directionof a qualified Roentgenologist, Dr. B. H. Orndoff. On the east, we pass the building in the County Hospitalblock devoted to a/mte infectious diseases. At Polk Street we turn east and at Wood Street north.We are now traversing the third side of the Cook CountyHospital block. This block contains twelve acres. Thehospital was established in 1866. The space is filled with CHICAGO A CONVENTION CITY 299 large splendidly equipped buildings. This hospital is oneof the largest institutions in the middle West. It has thecapacity of almost three thousand beds. During 1917thirty-four thousand four hundred patients were treatedin the hospital and eighteen thousand six hundred andtwelve in the dispensary. More than ten thousand Roent-gen examinations are made annually. The staff is selectedby competitive examinations held by the civil service com- )
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The Shaded Area in the Above Illustration Indicates That Part of the UnitedStates and Canada in Which Members and Counselors of theW. B. S. Are Located mission, irrespective of the school of practice. The prin-cipal divisions of the hospital are, in addition to the generalmedical and surgical departments, Psychopathic, Tubercu-losis, Contagious and Venereal. We next pass on the right the building of the old Dun-ham Medical College, which became extinct in 1902. We now come to the University of Illinois, College ofPharmacy. This department of the State University with 300 TIIK .JOTRXAL OF ROKXT< i KXL<)(Y its splendid buildings and facilities is recognized as one ofthe leading schools of pharmacy in the West. Farther north, we pass the Annie Duraxd MemorialHospital. Adjoining the hospital on the north is a largelaboratory building, which is one of the buildings of theMemorial Institute for infections diseases. The hospital

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