additional rooms and a dormitory for nurses. The capacity
at present is 196 beds, and a new addition is being built, to
cost $100,000, and providing 11 more rooms for patients.
Free patients admitted in the year ending October 1, 1926,
numbered 743, requiring 11,145 days’ treatment. The approx-
imate money value of this gratuitous treatment was $29,931.-
80. The number of missionaries cared for was 22, receiving
447 days’ treatment at a cost of $2,926.40. The Out Patient
Department rendered valuable service to meny who were able
to pay a small fee and to those unable to pay anything. Dur-
ing the winter Sabbath services were conducted whenever the
condition of the patients permitted. Columbia’s School for
Nursing is on the accredited list of the State of Pennsylvania.
The Columbia Hospital Auxiliary does valuable work in
connection with the children’s ward, providing Christmas
trees, Easter baskets, and other means of alleviating afflic-
tion, and from time to time, girls of the auxiliary give the use
of their motor cars to the social service workers.
Mrs. A. M. Scott is president; Miss Emma Mabon and
Mrs. W. A. Krebs are vice presidents; Mrs. R. M. Douglas is
recording secretary; Mrs. Ira Gribben is corresponding secre-
tary ; Mrs. S. A. Taylor is donation secretary, and Miss Mary
L. McCance is financial secretary.
THE DIXMONT HOSPITAL
The first meeting with a view to the formation of a board
of managers for the creation of a hospital, afterwards known
as the Western Pennsylvania Hospital, was held in the Odeon
Theatre building, Pittsburgh, by a group of representative
citizens of Pittsburgh and vicinity, in 1847, and on March 18,
1848, the legislature passed an act incorporating the Western
Pennsylvania Hospital. There was a provision in the act that
upon the payment of $100, life membership of the institution
could be obtained. Nearly $20,000 was raised at this meet-
ing, and within two years two hundred and fourteen citizens
had availed themselves of this privilege.
In 1848, at the time of the incorporation of the hospital, a
iract of ground, containing twenty-four acres in the twelfth
ward, City of Pittsburgh, was donated by Harmar Denny and
