The interior of the institution is light and airy, and 
modern conveniences of every sort are provided. There are 
perfectly equipped operating rooms with floors of marble and 
cemented white tile, lighted by side and skylights. There is 
a pharmacy provided over by a registered pharmacist, 
while small emergency drug rooms on each floor are at the 
the ready service of physicans and nurses. Apart from the 
main hospital are the pathological and bacteriological re- 
search laboratories, for the scientific investigation of disease 
Nrocesses. 
However, with all these facilities for tending the “broken 
members of humanity,” it was found necessary to provide 
space, because the Pittsburgh Hospital admits within its 
walls, without exception, the sick of all races and creeds. At 
times the percentage of free or charity patients has reached 
one-half of its activities. 
In 1925 ground was again broken for the hospital annex. 
This building is a handsome yellow brick structure, seven 
stories high, matching in design the older building to which it 
adjoins. On the top floor the obstetrical department was in- 
stalled. On the floors below, seventy-four rooms were pro- 
vided, being furnished by voluntary contributions, each room 
has a lavatory. The first floor is used for the nurses’ 
-afeteria, the enlarged X-ray department, the cystoscopic 
room, the electro-cardiograph, etc. On the ground floor 
:here is the large free dispensary and the Out-patient De- 
nartment. 
The hospital can now accommodate 200 patients, has a 
aurses’ training school of 70 and a medical staff of 33. 
A year ago an apartment house of thirty rooms on Mea- 
dow and Lincoln streets was bought as an additional home 
for the increased number of nurses. A new up-to-date home, 
large enough to adequately house all the nurses, is at present 
the problem the management is trying to meet. 
A social service department has been established, study- 
ing and reporting personality and environmental difficulties 
that often affect the health of patients. However, only cases 
where medical needs are evident, are carried by this depart- 
ment.