terests of the institution, in affording every possible means 
known to medical science for the comfort and relief of those 
entrusted to its care. It is gratifying to note the interest so 
manifest in the managers, a number of the managers of the 
present day being the grand-children of the founders. The 
hospital was one of the first in the country to introduce a 
training school for nurses. The service this single department 
has rendered not only to the mentally ill, but to all classes of 
suffering, is recognized throughout the State; the graduates 
from the school occupying many positions of trust and respon- 
sibility in not only Pennsylvania, but in other States, and 
during the World War many of its graduates were in the ser- 
vice in this country, as well as in the hospital at the front and 
in the larger cities in the countries involved. 
The medical service is aided by a well equipped labora- 
tory. During the history of the hospital it has had but nine 
presidents; Thomas Bakewell, John Harper, John A.Harper, 
Robert Pitcairn, William M. Kennedy, Charles C. Townsend, 
R. B. Mellon, James H. Reed and David A. Reed, the posi- 
tion being occupied at the present time by the Honorable 
David A. Reed, a grandson of the former Superintendent 
Joseph A. Reed, and a son of the former President James H. 
Reed. 
The hospital has had but two superintendents. Dr. Joseph 
Allison Reed having been chosen to that position in 1857, and 
who continued office until his death November 6, 1884, and 
the present incumbent. Dr. Henrv A. Hutchinson. 
THE EYE AND EAR HOSPITAL 
On May 20, 1895, the Eye and Ear Hospital came into 
existence, and its first home was 945 Penn avenue. A little 
blind girl who came to the attention of one of the women 
founders was the generating spark which led to the busy 
organization of the present day. 
The following persons met and signed the application for 
the charter and became the first board: Mrs. C. C. Beggs, 
Mrs. H. C. Beggs, Mrs. Francis Childs, Mrs. A. P. Childs, Jr., 
Mrs. M. L. Dallneyer, Mrs. F. A. Dilworth, Mrs. J. Duncan 
Dithridge, Mrs. William Flinn, Mrs. John B. Herron, Jr.,