avenue, Pittsburgh, adjoining the Stantion Heights Golf
Club, for a unit of the Shriners’ Hospitals for Crippled
Children, which will be built as soon as money is available.
The building depends entirely upon the income which the
poard of trustees may receive from the Imperial Council.
The income they are now receiving is only sufficient to oper-
ate the eleven hospital units that are now in existence.
At present time, cases from this district are being treated
at the Philadelphia unit of the Shriners’ Hospitals for Crip-
pled Children, and also at the Children’s Hospital of Pitts-
burgh in Oakland and the Industrial Home for Crippled
Children on Denniston Avenue.
THE SOUTH SIDE HOSPITAL
In April, 1889, a boy about sixteen fell from the second
story window of his home and fractured his hip. Passersby
carried him to the office of Dr. John Milton Duff. Dr. Duff
had made frequent attempts to interest the people of the
South Side in a general hospital, without success. After the
boy had been treated and taken to his home, Drs. Duff,
Thomas and Arnholt gathered a few of the prominent men of
the neighborhood and they decided to rent a three story brick
building with store front on South Twenty-second. street, a
responsibility and on June 11, 1889, opened a hospital of thir-
-y beds.
The officers for the new hospital were: Hon. Fred Gearing,
president; Thomas Sankey, vice president; John Milton Duff,
M. D., treasurer; Edgar A. Mundorf, secretary. The direct-
ors were: Hon. Fred Gearing, John E. Cook, Capt. A. E. Hei-
sey, Martin Frank, James Felker, Dr. J. D. Thomas, Dr. Fred
Koehler, Thomas Sankey, Dr. J. M. Duff, John Lewis, John
Gray, Dr. M. A. Arnholt. J. O’Connor Campbell and Samuel
Miller.
At the directors’ meeting in October, 1889, it was reported
that 75 patients had been cared for. By the end of June,
1891, over 1100 had been admitted and cared for and one-half
of the patients seeking admission were turned away hecause
of want of room to accommodate them.
A charter was granted by the courts in 1890 in the name
>f the South Side Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pa. On April 29,
