The story of Pittsburgh: Hospitals

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Identifikator:: 1831622599

Document type:: Multivolume work

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:: Tuberculosis league

Collection:: Economics Books

of the Dispensary Aid Society, a group of prominent young women. During the fifteen years of its existence, this one dis- pensary alone has given advice and furnished free treatment to approximately 30,000 people. In 1914 a power and service building was erected. Aside from housing the power plant, laundry, kitchen, etc., the upper floor of this building houses a well equipped laboratory which makes thousands of diagnostic analyses each year. The free public health library and the offices of the county director and of the educational director are also on the second floor of this building. The year 1917 saw the completion of a new building for women and children, which was badly need- ed. Aside from the forty-two beds on glass enclosed porches, the recreation rooms, ete., this building also houses the open air school. With the war came the problem of the tuberculous ex-ser- vice man. Our already overflowing hospital could not ade- quately house the consumptive soldiers who were coming to us. In 1920, through the efforts of a Pittsburgh paper, a fund was started to build a pavilion for the soldiers which was com- pleted and dedicated in 1921. Three hundred and eighty men were hospitalized during the five years until the opening of the new government hospital at Aspinwall. This building is now used for men patients. About 1,500 ex-service men were also treated in the dispensaries during this period. . The Tuberculosis League of Pittsburgh has been conduct- ing a drive for funds to build a new building to replace the old McConway residence, now very antiquated, a fire-trap, and impossible to keep in the hygienic condition necessary to a hospital. That building has been razed, and construction of the new building, which will cost about $600,000, is in progress. To briefly summarize the yearly work of the institution: the hospital last year cared for 370 bed patients, who spent a total of 45,094 bed-days in the institution; 36,366 of these bed days were entirely free of cost. In the main dispensary and five sub-dispensaries, 7,310 persons received free examination and. treatment, and 4,656 more were visited in their own homes by League nurses. The educational department gave 990 health lectures before various audiences, a total of about 100,000 persons hearing the talks. All the public and paro-

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