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

Document type:: Volume

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:: Roselia foundling asylum and maternity hospital

Collection:: Economics Books

Robert Walsh, second vice president; Mrs. John Boyle, third vice president; Mrs. Harry Hunter, fourth vice president; Miss Katheryn Griffin, secretary; Mrs. Isaac Mamaux, trea- surer; Mrs. Wm. Smith, publicity; Mrs. John Finn, Mus. Thomas Ford, Mrs. E. A. Hufnagle, Mrs. Wm. Labge, Mrs. John Lloyd, Mrs. James Loftis, Mrs. Joseph Murphy, Mrs. Charles Reel, Mrs. George Walker. ST. FRANCIS HOSPITAL St. Francis Hospital was started in a little frame house in Thirty-seventh street, in 1865, with three Franciscan sisters in charge. The staff was obtained by calling in doctors of the neighborhood when physicians were needed. Through the smallpox epidemic which swept Pittsburgh from 1866 to 1872 the institution directed attention entirely to contagious cases. At that time Lawrenceville was the residential section of the city, and the work being done in the tiny hospital caused business men of the district to realize how badly more facili- ties were needed. They purchased a few acres of land on which a frame building stood, and moved the sisters into these quarters, where they were able to care for a larger num- ber of patients. The institution soon began to function as a general hospital, and equipped itself according to the ideals of modern medical science. Through the sixty years that St. Francis Hospital has oper- ated, the calls for aid have mounted constantly until it is now caring for more than 600 patients daily in buildings that were intended for a much smaller number. More than 10,500 per- sons sought health in this hospital during the past year. More than 3,000, admittedly too poor to pay, were given every necessity that money bought for others, to say nothing of those treated in the free dispensary department. The bed- patient service was 81 per cent free, while 77 per cent of all patients treated were cared for without charge. The register- 2d capacity of the hospital is 600 beds, but 709 patients have been treated at one time by placing cots in the aisles of wards, and by putting beds in the public corridors. Delays of three weeks have been necessary before patients could be admitted but no destitute sick or those needing emergency attention

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