of the Dispensary Aid Society, a group of prominent young 
women. During the fifteen years of its existence, this one dis- 
pensary alone has given advice and furnished free treatment 
to approximately 30,000 people. 
In 1914 a power and service building was erected. Aside 
from housing the power plant, laundry, kitchen, etc., the 
upper floor of this building houses a well equipped laboratory 
which makes thousands of diagnostic analyses each year. 
The free public health library and the offices of the county 
director and of the educational director are also on the second 
floor of this building. The year 1917 saw the completion of a 
new building for women and children, which was badly need- 
ed. Aside from the forty-two beds on glass enclosed porches, 
the recreation rooms, ete., this building also houses the open 
air school. 
With the war came the problem of the tuberculous ex-ser- 
vice man. Our already overflowing hospital could not ade- 
quately house the consumptive soldiers who were coming to 
us. In 1920, through the efforts of a Pittsburgh paper, a fund 
was started to build a pavilion for the soldiers which was com- 
pleted and dedicated in 1921. Three hundred and eighty men 
were hospitalized during the five years until the opening of 
the new government hospital at Aspinwall. This building is 
now used for men patients. About 1,500 ex-service men were 
also treated in the dispensaries during this period. . 
The Tuberculosis League of Pittsburgh has been conduct- 
ing a drive for funds to build a new building to replace the old 
McConway residence, now very antiquated, a fire-trap, and 
impossible to keep in the hygienic condition necessary to a 
hospital. That building has been razed, and construction of the 
new building, which will cost about $600,000, is in progress. 
To briefly summarize the yearly work of the institution: 
the hospital last year cared for 370 bed patients, who spent a 
total of 45,094 bed-days in the institution; 36,366 of these bed 
days were entirely free of cost. In the main dispensary and 
five sub-dispensaries, 7,310 persons received free examination 
and. treatment, and 4,656 more were visited in their own 
homes by League nurses. The educational department gave 
990 health lectures before various audiences, a total of about 
100,000 persons hearing the talks. All the public and paro-