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:: Shriners' hospital for crippled children

Collection:: Economics Books

avenue, Pittsburgh, adjoining the Stantion Heights Golf Club, for a unit of the Shriners’ Hospitals for Crippled Children, which will be built as soon as money is available. The building depends entirely upon the income which the poard of trustees may receive from the Imperial Council. The income they are now receiving is only sufficient to oper- ate the eleven hospital units that are now in existence. At present time, cases from this district are being treated at the Philadelphia unit of the Shriners’ Hospitals for Crip- pled Children, and also at the Children’s Hospital of Pitts- burgh in Oakland and the Industrial Home for Crippled Children on Denniston Avenue. THE SOUTH SIDE HOSPITAL In April, 1889, a boy about sixteen fell from the second story window of his home and fractured his hip. Passersby carried him to the office of Dr. John Milton Duff. Dr. Duff had made frequent attempts to interest the people of the South Side in a general hospital, without success. After the boy had been treated and taken to his home, Drs. Duff, Thomas and Arnholt gathered a few of the prominent men of the neighborhood and they decided to rent a three story brick building with store front on South Twenty-second. street, a responsibility and on June 11, 1889, opened a hospital of thir- -y beds. The officers for the new hospital were: Hon. Fred Gearing, president; Thomas Sankey, vice president; John Milton Duff, M. D., treasurer; Edgar A. Mundorf, secretary. The direct- ors were: Hon. Fred Gearing, John E. Cook, Capt. A. E. Hei- sey, Martin Frank, James Felker, Dr. J. D. Thomas, Dr. Fred Koehler, Thomas Sankey, Dr. J. M. Duff, John Lewis, John Gray, Dr. M. A. Arnholt. J. O’Connor Campbell and Samuel Miller. At the directors’ meeting in October, 1889, it was reported that 75 patients had been cared for. By the end of June, 1891, over 1100 had been admitted and cared for and one-half of the patients seeking admission were turned away hecause of want of room to accommodate them. A charter was granted by the courts in 1890 in the name >f the South Side Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pa. On April 29,

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