invitation to the attending physician is extended by the staff 
to assist in the care of their cases. 
The hospital has undergone during the preceding year a 
complete remodeling and renovation. There can be estab- 
lished complete segregation for all types of diseases handled. 
Lt is the fifth largest hospital in Pittsburgh, having a capacity 
for 250 patients. It is not a charitable institution, although 
no citizen, ill with any of the diseases cared for in the hospital, 
is permitted to pay either for hospital care or nursing or 
physician’s services. The reason for the operation of the 
hospital by the Department of Public Health is the preven- 
tion of disease, by isolating those suffering from serious, com- 
municable diseases, and keeping them apart from well people 
where they would most probably infect others. While ad- 
mission of patients to the Muncipal Hospital is made on re- 
quest of the physician in attendance, the Department of 
Public Health, under certain conditions, may demand hospi- 
talization of any serious communicable disease, if they have 
become public menaces because of failure to maintain proper 
quarantine, or because of poor housing, or bad hygienic con- 
ditions, or lack of care. All cases of smallpox are immed- 
lately removed for isolation to the Municipal Hospital, where 
they are given expert handling by physicians and nurses fami- 
liar with the disease. Among other diseases handled here are 
diphtheria, scarlet fever, erysipelas, infantile paralysis and 
cerebro-spinal fever, 
Dr. R. G. Burns, director of the Department of Public 
Health, is superintendent, and Dr. J. S. Baird is chief of the 
medical service. 
THE PITTSBURGH SKIN AND 
CANCER FOUNDATION 
The Pittsburgh Skin and Cancer Foundation, located at 
8400 Forbes street, was organized on February 12, 1923, and 
incorporated under the laws of Pennsylvania on April 18, 
1923 Its policies are under immediate control of the board 
of directors, who are assisted in the actual carrying out of 
its purposes by the women’s dispensary board and the 
medical and surgical staff.