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:: Allegheny general hospital

Collection:: Economics Books

From an early period, nurses from this institution have given their services in the foreign fields, and at present the school is represented by graduates in India. Egypt, Abyssinia and Liberia. Directors of the Allegheny General Hospital have been able, through the generosity of the Park and Chalfant fami- lies, and through the purchase of the Sawyer estate and sun- dry other plots of ground in the neighborhood of these prop- erties, to acquire sufficient land in what is probably the most desirable location in the downtown section of the city of Pitts- burgh, for the erection of a new Allegheny General Hospital, which will rank as one of the finest modern hospitals in the country. The gift by the families named comprises about three acres on North avenue, facing the park, in the same district in which the institution has been serving for forty years. Other plots enlarge the site to 8.22 acres. The scheme for the new building provides for a building 250 feet long, 45 feet wide and 15 stories high, forming a central stem. This is to be flanked on either side by three projecting wings, one of nine stories and the other two of three stories each. From the north end of the hospital a connecting passage extends to the nurses’ home, a nine story building 192 feet long. The design of the hospital is based on the Lombard brick architecture of Northern Italy. The chief features of the plans provide for ample light and air, and the circulation be- tween all departments, the horizontal travel having been re- duced to a minimum by grouping everything around the main bank of elevators located at the very center of the building, The William H. Singer Memorial Research Laboratory was founded by Mrs. Singer, widow of Mr. Singer, and by their children, G. Harton Singer, Mrs. W. Ross Proctor, and Mrs. Robert Milligan. After the completion of the building, at the northeast corner of Sandusky street and Park way, and its thorough equipment, the entire property was turned over to the board of trustees of the Allegheny General Hospital as a gift to that institution, provided that it should be used both as a research laboratory for the study of general medical and surgical problems, and as a means of furnishing the hospital with a high grade of routine laboratory work. The labora-

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