UNDER the heading, “Free Hospital Chartered. Will be Under Control of Seventh-day Adventists,” the following item of news appeared in the Philadelphia Public Ledger of April 26:— The Pennsylvania Sanitarium and Benevolent Association, which conducts a hospital for the free treatment of non-contagious diseases, at Eighteenth and Wallace Streets, was granted a charter yesterday by Common Pleas Court. The institution is under control of the Seventh-day Adventists, and is a branch of the church’s principal hospital at Battle Creek, Mich. According to the papers filed, not only a free hospital will be maintained, but a home for the needy poor also. It is intended to build a larger hospital in the suburbs. The incorporators are Rufus A. Underwood, of Williamsport; Dr. Albert J. Read, 1809 Wallace St.; J. Edward Jayne, Paterson, N. J.; William J. Fitzgerald, 1942 North Seventeenth St.; Dr. Joel P. Bradford, 1809 Wallace St.; V. Herbert Cook, Williamsport; Dr. John W. Wilkins, 1914 Arch St.; and Charles H. Keslake, Trenton.