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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fr fig a £5. 3 8 ii £ oO z N wo LS) 0 (HY > 1 A) pai ab vy 3 -1 o 2 0 oD A) = 1 2 rd D ‘J 2 ~J > ~J 0 oo 3 3 type of thirty bed capacity, with a small detached ward for treatment of patients with contagious diseases. The sale price was $57,554.57, and a new site was pur- chased for $30,000. By a decision of the Comptroller of the Treasury, the balance of the sale price of the old build- ing could not be used for construction of a new building, so it was recommended that an appropriation be asked of Con- gress for construction. During the fiscal year 1881 an ap- propriation of only $7,000 became available for building a small cottage hospital. Considerable delay occurred in securing from the State Legislature a ceding of jurisdiction over the property. This was eventually secured, but the building was never built, and Mercy Hospital continued to care for service patients until the present hospital was opened. Meanwhile patients were being cared for under contract with the Pittsburgh Infirmary, and an out-patient office being rented in a building at Sixth and Smithfield streets. In [884 the care of Service patients was transferred to Mercy Hospital, the cost being 94 cents a day. On March 13, 1891, fire destroyed the Germania Bank building at the corner of Wood and Diamond streets, in which the out-patient office of the service was located at the time. Everything was lost, including all previous records. Temporary office rooms were rented at 666 Wood street un- til March 7, 1892, when the out-patient office was moved to the Federal Building. On October 15, 1902, a commission was appointed to examine various sites offered for a Marine Hospital which was authorized by Act of Congress March 81, 1902. The commission finally recommended the transfer to the Treasury Department of about five acres of the old Arsenal Reservation at Fortieth street and Penn avenue as a site for the hospital, and the transfer of this property was authorized by Act of Congress approved March 3, 1908, and consummated by William H. Taft as Secretary of War on the seventh of May, 1904. The boundaries of this parcel of land are described in the official transfer document as follows: “Beginning at a point where the northerly side of Penn avenue meets the westerly side of Fortieth street and running thence northwesterly along the westerly side of Fortieth + 0 3 3 * 7 > © ® Q © 8) rey

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