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The Jewish hospital at 17 Dworska Street (currently 17 Kasprzak Street), located in Czyste[1.1], was established in 1902. It was designed by Artur Goebel. The prime movers behind hospital construction and promoters of a fundraiser for that cause were the Natanson family, for whom Goebel had designed the Financial House at the corner of Czacki and Traugutt Streets (at the time, respectively, Włodzimierska and Count Berg Streets). Ludwik Natanson (1821-1896), M.D., Chairman of the Medical Society of Warsaw and the Warsaw Jewish Community, played a key role in the establishment of the hospital. The architect Naum Horstein, known for designing the still existing mikveh, a Jewish ritual bath building in Prague, collaborated with Goebel on the hospital construction work.