The story of Pittsburgh: Hospitals

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Identifikator:: 1831622599

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Title:: The story of Pittsburgh

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1919-1930

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1831623870

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-241156

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Title:: Hospitals

Volume count:: Vol. 1, nr. 16

Place of publication:: Pittsburgh

Publisher:: First National Bank

Year of publication:: 1928

Scope:: [ca. 100] Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Passavant hospital

Collection:: Economics Books

Allegheny at the foot of Montgomery’s Hill. A rented house in the spring of 1848 was selected for the purpose of caring for the sick and needy but no patients were admitted until the spring of 1849. When the city of Pittsburgh was celebrating the return of the soldiers from the Mexican War, Dr. Passavant found three soldiers sick with fever neglected in the boats at the dock. With the aid of a theological student, Asa Waters, he -ransferred them to the vacant infirmary, where, in the ab- sence of nurses, the doctor himself with Mr. Waters nursed them back to health. In the summer of that year cholera suddenly made its appearance at different points on the river; a number of these patients were admitted to the infirmary. This caused so great a panic that the neighbors threatened to stone the building and Dr. Passavant was obliged to load his patients into a wagon and seek a safe refuge for them before night. He sought guidance in prayer and God led him across the sity to Lacyville, where he found room for his wagon load of patients in Dr. Lacy’s Female Seminary, which was empty at that time. Dr. Passavant bought this building together with a garden, for $5,500, and after four deaconesses arrived from Germany to carry on the work, the Pittsburgh Infirmary was Jedicated on July 17, 1849, to be a refuge for the worthy sick of every religion, color or race. In 1850 the field adjoining the infirmary, containing up- wards of four acres, was purchased for the sum of $12,000. Of this that portion bordering on Dinwiddie street was divid- ed into 28 lots and sold for $500 a lot to pay for the property. A pew infirmary building, 60x40 feet and four stories high, was erected in 1851 on the newly purchased land. The ac- ~omodations it afforded were for forty patients, besides room for the sisters, of which there were five. Sister Louisa Mar- thens of Pittsburgh was the first American deaconess to enter. This new building cost $8,000 and is still used as a part of the hospital. The number of patients admitted in 1852 was 272. Expenditures for the entire year were $2,432.35. The most interesting years were 1853 and 1854—when admissions for the two years amounted to 536—of those 38 were typhoid; 21

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