the Jane Fraser Memorial Building. It was presented to the 
public January, 1912. Capacity, sixty beds. Four years 
later a small addition was added to the building, making it a 
seventy bed hospital. For a number of years this hospital 
building not only took care of the sick and injured in the com- 
munity but was the center of medical and nursing education 
of the North boroughs. 
In 1919 a separate three story brick building was erected. 
This contains a modern laundry, employees’ quarters and 
garage. 
In 1920 the hospital again outgrew its capacity. There 
were insufficient beds to take care of the sick in the com- 
munity. The directors held a financial campaign in October, 
1923, for funds to.build a new addition; $85,000 was subscrib- 
ed. Of this $65,000 was received; $125,000 was issued in 
hospital bonds, and $100,000 sold to finance the new addition. 
This was opened September 6, 1926. Approximate cost 
$200,000. It is a modern fire proof structure, and contains 
thirty private rooms, three four bed wards and three bed 
wards, two childrens’ wards, nursery, sun-parlors, utility and 
service rooms, main kitchen and dining-rooms, power and re- 
frigeration plant. The record of the hospital has been one of 
steady progress. From a twenty bed hospital to one hundred 
and twenty-five beds, of which fifty are private rooms. 
The present service of the Suburban General Hospital em- 
braces the following: medical, surgical, obstetrical, eye, ear, 
nose and throat, and children’s diseases, with X-ray and 
pathological laboratories, dispensary and ambulance service. 
The hospital is a member of the American Hospital As- 
sociation. It is approved by the American College of Sur- 
geons and endorsed by the Chamber of Commerce of Pitts- 
burgh. 
Twenty two thousand patients have been cared for by the 
hospital. The present assests are approximately $500,000 
with a yearly expenditure of about $125,000. The personnel 
is composed of the following: thirty student nurses, four grad- 
uate nurse supervisiors, one night supervisor, one anaesthe- 
tist, one laboratory technician, a dietitian, directress of 
nurses, house-keeper, resident physician and student interne, 
bookkeeper, stenographer, engineer and twenty domestic em- 
ployees.