568; part pay nursing days, 4,846; free nursing days 9,819;
dispensary visits, 12,552; emergency cases, 1,611.
The hospital and the training school are found on the
accredited list of those belonging to the state of Pennsylvania.
The board of directors are: L. H. Gethoefer, president;
William Steinmeyer, secretary; L. H. Kerr, Jas. W. Henry,
A. B. Sheets, M. Schreiber and J. B. Tonkin. F. R. Babcock,
president and chairman of the board of directors, died
December 8, 1927, and Mr. Gethoefer was elected president.
There are at present three Lutheran deaconesses from the
Milwaukee Deaconess Motherhouse stationed at the hospital,
but the service rendered is the same as at the time of its beginning,
nonsectarian, a place of refuge for the sick and needy
regardless of creed, color or race.
THE PASTEUR INSTITUTE
The following brief history of the Pasteur Institute was
prepared by Dr. A. Leteve, director of the Pasteur Institute
and French Consular Agent in Pittsburgh. Much has
been omitted, which, if included, would necessitate more extensive
explanations, and thus call for the preparation of a
book or set of books, dealing with the Pasteur Institute
alone, which is known and recognized throughout the world.
When in 1884 it was announced to the world that a preventive
treatment against rabies (hydrophobia) had been
obtained, astonishment and delight succeeded. For this
announcement was made by a man who proved that his
theories and practice were absolutely true and correct. The
theory of the oxidation by air had been beaten to pieces by
the scientists of the times and the fermentation theory was
recognized. As soon as we knew that rabies could be prevented
by an attenuated virus (vaccine), the followers of
this man, with his authorization, went throughout the world
to apply his method to attenuate the sufferings of humanity
Many other methods have been established but none as
successful as his.
A Pasteur Institute is not only for the treatment of
rabies but for the preparations of vaccines and anti-toxins
against the disease infections of the human race. The human
