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

chial schools in the city and many in the county were visited by a special worker who talked to the children and teachers. Public health nurses in training received special courses in tu- herculosis, as did the medical students of the University of Pittsburgh. The county organizer visited 130 districts in Allegheny county and helped them with their health prob- tems. The health library served many people in the commu- nity as well as giving daily aid to the Tuberculosis League’s own staff. As a result of twenty years’ continuous struggle against tuberculosis, the mortality rate has been reduced in Pitts- burgh from 146.2 per 100,000 population in 1908, to 73.3 in 1927, which means a saving of many hundreds of lives in this locality. Much ‘work still remains to be done, however, as the disease is preventable,and through health education and co-operation on the part of the public, this great scourge which last year killed over 1000 in Greater Pittsburgh may be wiped from the face of the earth. UNITED STATES MARINE HOSPITAL Pursuant to Act of Congress approved March 3, 1837, a board of Army medical officers was designated by the Sec- retary of War to select and recommend locations for Marine Hospitals. These recommendations were followed, with the exception that the hospital recommended for Wheeling, W. Va., was built instead at Pittsburgh, Pa. The site for the hospital in Pittsburgh was purchased in 1842 and was located on the Ohio river below Allegheny City. Building was not begun until 1845 and owing to the very small appropriation available, it was soon expended and work was interrupted until 1849. The building was completed in 1851. The location was unfortunate and the property was sold in 1875. The building had become dilapidated and unfit for the pur- pose, and the location of a blast furnace on one side of the grounds and a rolling mill on the other resulted in the hos- pital being filled with smoke and soot, whichever way the wind blew, and the noise was a great annoyance to the sick. [t was proposed to utilize the proceeds of the sale of the prop- erty toward the construction of a new hospital, of pavilion

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