From an early period, nurses from this institution have given 
their services in the foreign fields, and at present the school is 
represented by graduates in India. Egypt, Abyssinia and 
Liberia. 
Directors of the Allegheny General Hospital have been 
able, through the generosity of the Park and Chalfant fami- 
lies, and through the purchase of the Sawyer estate and sun- 
dry other plots of ground in the neighborhood of these prop- 
erties, to acquire sufficient land in what is probably the most 
desirable location in the downtown section of the city of Pitts- 
burgh, for the erection of a new Allegheny General Hospital, 
which will rank as one of the finest modern hospitals in the 
country. 
The gift by the families named comprises about three 
acres on North avenue, facing the park, in the same district 
in which the institution has been serving for forty years. 
Other plots enlarge the site to 8.22 acres. The scheme for the 
new building provides for a building 250 feet long, 45 feet 
wide and 15 stories high, forming a central stem. This is to 
be flanked on either side by three projecting wings, one of 
nine stories and the other two of three stories each. From the 
north end of the hospital a connecting passage extends to the 
nurses’ home, a nine story building 192 feet long. 
The design of the hospital is based on the Lombard brick 
architecture of Northern Italy. The chief features of the 
plans provide for ample light and air, and the circulation be- 
tween all departments, the horizontal travel having been re- 
duced to a minimum by grouping everything around the main 
bank of elevators located at the very center of the building, 
The William H. Singer Memorial Research Laboratory was 
founded by Mrs. Singer, widow of Mr. Singer, and by their 
children, G. Harton Singer, Mrs. W. Ross Proctor, and Mrs. 
Robert Milligan. After the completion of the building, at 
the northeast corner of Sandusky street and Park way, and 
its thorough equipment, the entire property was turned over 
to the board of trustees of the Allegheny General Hospital as 
a gift to that institution, provided that it should be used both 
as a research laboratory for the study of general medical and 
surgical problems, and as a means of furnishing the hospital 
with a high grade of routine laboratory work. The labora-