partment during the year 1927 distributed relief to the poor
of the county amounting to $140,000.
The management of the Allegheny County Home and
Hospital is under the supervision of the Directors of the Poor,
of which Maj. J. Clyde Miller of Homestead is president,
H. H. Dixon of Millvale, vice president, and Dr. W. L.
Henderson of East McKeesport, secretary. Dr. G. A. Me-
Cracken is superintendent.
ALLEGHENY GENERAL HOSPITAL
The Allegheny General Hospital, on the North Side of
the City of Pittsburgh, was incorporated December 4, 1882,
and formally opened February 15, 1886. It was rebuilt in
1904. Its bed capacity in 1886 was 50, and this had increased
to 405 in the year of 1927. The number of patients admitted
in 1886 was 369, and this increased to 6550 in the 1926-1927
year, ending May 31. Expenditures in 1887 were $20,177.82,
and in the latest year named they had grown to $628,749.08.
The endowment fund in the first year was $10,000, and this
had increased by the end of 1927 to $3,104,449.58; of this,
$712,024.58 was general, $442,425.00 laboratory, and $1,950.-
000.00 in memorial and other special funds.
Illustrative of changed conditions, the annual report
states that the actual average per capita per diem cost, 1886-
1887, was 96 cents, while in 1926-1927 the actual average per
diem cost was $5.25.
Total patient days of treatment in the year ended May
31, 1926, were 119,654; patients’ days in wards, 82,507; pa-
tients’ days in private rooms, 37,147; total patients admitted
to wards and private rooms, 6,550; patients admitted to pri-
vate rooms, 3,912. The average stay of private room patients
was a little more than 14 days, the average stay of ward pa-
tients a little over 21 days, and the average stay of hospital
patients was a little over 18 days. The total number of free
days service rendered over the past fiscal year was 50,271.
These facts briefly stated, give an insight into the need of a
hospital of this character on the North Side.
The School of Nursing has reached its 40th anniversary
and has issued “The Stethoscope,” which tells of its activities.
