the Jane Fraser Memorial Building. It was presented to the
public January, 1912. Capacity, sixty beds. Four years
later a small addition was added to the building, making it a
seventy bed hospital. For a number of years this hospital
building not only took care of the sick and injured in the community
 but was the center of medical and nursing education
of the North boroughs.
In 1919 a separate three story brick building was erected.
This contains a modern laundry, employees’ quarters and
garage.
In 1920 the hospital again outgrew its capacity. There
were insufficient beds to take care of the sick in the community.
 The directors held a financial campaign in October,
1923, for funds to.build a new addition; $85,000 was subscribed.
 Of this $65,000 was received; $125,000 was issued in
hospital bonds, and $100,000 sold to finance the new addition.
This was opened September 6, 1926. Approximate cost
$200,000. It is a modern fire proof structure, and contains
thirty private rooms, three four bed wards and three bed
wards, two childrens’ wards, nursery, sun-parlors, utility and
service rooms, main kitchen and dining-rooms, power and refrigeration
 plant. The record of the hospital has been one of
steady progress. From a twenty bed hospital to one hundred
and twenty-five beds, of which fifty are private rooms.
The present service of the Suburban General Hospital embraces
 the following: medical, surgical, obstetrical, eye, ear,
nose and throat, and children’s diseases, with X-ray and
pathological laboratories, dispensary and ambulance service.
The hospital is a member of the American Hospital Association.
 It is approved by the American College of Surgeons
 and endorsed by the Chamber of Commerce of Pittsburgh.

Twenty two thousand patients have been cared for by the
hospital. The present assests are approximately $500,000
with a yearly expenditure of about $125,000. The personnel
is composed of the following: thirty student nurses, four graduate
 nurse supervisiors, one night supervisor, one anaesthetist,
 one laboratory technician, a dietitian, directress of
nurses, house-keeper, resident physician and student interne,
bookkeeper, stenographer, engineer and twenty domestic employees.