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Show are wage earners, whereby if their application ap-plication for diagnostic services is approved ap-proved by their employers or others equally responsible, a method of small periodic payments will secure for them the very best diagnostic skill." The need for such an institution was first pointed out by Dr. Charles H. Mayo in an address before the Catholic Hospital association of Milwaukee. Doctor Mayo expressed the opinion that the one great present day need in the direction of hospital advancement was a hospital devoted exclusively to diagnosis. HOSPITAL ALONG NEW LINES New York Institution That Will Be Devoted Exclusively to Cases Calling for Diagnosis. There is soon to be established in New York the first diagnostic hospital in this country, which will perform in the highly specialized medicine of today to-day the function of the old family physician phy-sician of 50 years ago, says the New York, Times. It will look over a patient suffering from an unidentified ailment, find out what is the matter with him and direct him to a specialist If he can afford it. If not, he will be sent back to the general practitioner under whose care he has been, with a complete diagnosis diag-nosis of his disease, a plan for treating It suggested by competent specialists, and references to recent literature on the subject. The officers of the New York Diagnostic Diag-nostic society, which is planning the new institution, are Dr. M. Joseph Man-delbaum, Man-delbaum, president; Dr. De Witt Stet-ton, Stet-ton, first vice president; Dr. Otto Hen-sel, Hen-sel, second vice president; Dr. Julius Auerbach, treasurer; Dr. Monroe Kunstler, secretary. There are about 300 physicians and surgeons among the associate members. About $100,000 has already been raised by the building fund committee, of which David Frankel is chairman, and only 50,000 is still required to complete the sum needed for buildings and grounds, which will be in a central part of Manhattan. Man-hattan. It is hoped that the institution will be self-supporting, and Doctor Mandel-baum Mandel-baum has worked out a plan of installment install-ment payments which . he thinks will bring about the result. "I know this will appear startling," he said, "to those who are not in the habit of looking look-ing at these matters from the standpoint stand-point of dollars and cents. But this is a practical plan nnd therefore must he considered from the most easily applied financial basis. This method of payment pay-ment will be especially for those who |