While the hospital is not yet completed, the unit operating 
paid 1618 vouchers, discounted its own accounts and by 
prompt payment a savings of $1404.07 was made besides ob- 
‘aining low and reasonable prices. 
The amount of allotment, salaries and expenses, for the 
fiscal year 1926, was $258,612; the amount of allotment, med- 
ical and hospital services, for the fiscal year 1926, was $167,- 
218, a total sum of $425,830, made available to the prosperity 
of Pittsburgh and vicinity. There is liberated from this Gov- 
ernmet activity, which includes compensation, salary and 
bureau expenses, approximately $40,000 monthly. The fol- 
lowing represents the investments at this hospital: Land and 
improvements, $125,000; buildings and plants, $1,157,208.88; 
improvements and replacements, $28,805.32; equipment, 
$154,394.98; total, $1,465,409.18. 
The majority of the staff and personnel reside upon the 
station which has a total population of approximately four 
hundred and fifty to be provided for. The professional and 
administrative staffs consist of the following officers: Medical 
officer in charge, Dr. Henry Rolf Brown; clinical director, Dr. 
James M. McNall; business manager, Frank L. Payne; prop- 
erty custodian, Everett M. Aten; chief nurse, Florence H.Yei- 
ter; chief dietitian, Elizabeth Rugh; occupational therapy 
director, Eunice M. Cates; chief engineer, Herbert L. McNul- 
ty; personnel officer, Murial A. Johnson; special disbursing 
agent, Nell M. Greely; auditor, Ina A. Gallagher; librarian, 
Ruby K. Ahern: pharmacist, James J. Deeney. 
THE WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL 
In 1847, after the people of Pittsburgh had for many 
years felt the need of a general hospital, several prominent 
citizens met in Odean Hall on Fourth avenue, in order that 
such an institution might come to be an actuality. 
A constitution was drafted, one extract from which will 
serve to show the ideals as expressed by its founders: “Re- 
solved that in establishing a hospital we desire to make it a 
general one. We disclaim all sectarian preferences and cordi- 
ally invite all of every sect and denomination to unite with us