nurses. The training school was founded in 1909. It is under 
the medical care of the staff, and the supervision of the super- 
intendent of the hospital. Fourteen hospitals who send their 
students to the Children’s Hospital for this special training, 
are affiliated with it. There has also been established a post- 
graduate course of instruction for graduate nurses interested 
in the special nursing care of children. 
The eighth floor is planned for the care of contagious cases 
and contains four entirely separate units for complete isola- 
tion. 
All the floors (with the exception of the eighth floor), are 
eqiupped with verandas of generous proportion—where the 
patients may have fresh air all day long. 
The isolation ward has proved a very great success. No 
disease imprisoned there has ever dropped down into the 
wards. During the recent period of infantile paralysis in the 
city, over half the children attacked were cared for in the hos- 
pital, and its laboratories made a serum, which, if used dur- 
ing the first stages of the disease, seems to stay the progress of 
the paralysis. The hospital had a letter from the Board of 
Health, acknowledging the great indebtedness of Pittsburgh 
for this service, saying there was no other agency which could 
have rendered it. 
Two wards have recently been supplied with Quartz-Lite, 
the ultra-violet ray glass, generously contributed by a mem- 
ber of the board of managers. This provides the patients 
with the health-giving properties of the sun, which are lost 
when ordinary glass is used. It is now contemplated to en- 
close a large outdoor balcony, on the seventh floor, with 
Quartz-Lite, to use as a solarium and outdoor room for the 
school, which averages over 40 pupils a day—eager, earnest, 
happy little people, putting forth every effort to learn, that 
they may go on with children of their own age when they 
are returned to the public schools, without the odium of 
“backward children” being attached to them. This school is 
the gift of the Board of Public Education to the hospital, and 
is the first to be opened in a Pittsburgh hospital. It is an out- 
ward expression of the fact Pittsburgh is keeping step with 
New York and other great cities in educational work.