Hospitals for Women Doctors

There are so few hospitals where a woman physician or surgeon can get an important post on the staff that the professional members of the New York Infirmary for Women & Children raised a vigorous clamor last spring when their institution seemed about to be dissolved. Last week they were cheering, for friends were raising them $3,000,000 to build a 21-story hospital. President of their board of trustees and chief of the money-gathering squadrons is Mrs. Frank Arthur Vanderlip, wife of the onetime (1909-19) president of the National City Bank, since last month the world's largest. They have six children.

The same day that that money campaign was initiated, another was begun in Manhattan--for $6,000,000 to build a Gotham Hospital. It's fees will be moderate--an attempt to solve the great contemporary problem of giving first class medical aid to the man who is neither a millonaire nor a pauper. Women doctors will have equal opportunity with men on the staff. Said Matthew Scott Sloan, president of the great New York Edison (electric) Co., and chairman of the fund raisers, cheeringly: "I believe that women have a distinct contribution to make to the health of a community and should be given every chance to make that contribution." Mr. Sloan, an electrical engineer, is closely affiliated with medicine. His championship of women doctors is based on experience-- for years his family doctor has been able Connie Myers Guion, 47, specialist in internal medicine, Cornell Medical graduate, chief of the department of medicine of the Cornell Pay Clinic, Manhattan.

A third hospital campaign currently going on in Manhattan is for $5,000,000 for the New York Skin & Cancer Hospital, oldest of its kind in the U. S. Money collector is the Fiscal Service Corp., the professional group of appeal-makers which obtained for Amelia Earhart her money to fly across the Atlantic with Wilmer Stultz last year.