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 com-
munity 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 com-
munity. The directors held a financial campaign in October,
1923, for funds to.build a new addition; $85,000 was subscrib-
ed. 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 re-
frigeration 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 em-
braces 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 As-
sociation. It is approved by the American College of Sur-
geons and endorsed by the Chamber of Commerce of Pitts-
burgh.
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 grad-
uate nurse supervisiors, one night supervisor, one anaesthe-
tist, one laboratory technician, a dietitian, directress of
nurses, house-keeper, resident physician and student interne,
bookkeeper, stenographer, engineer and twenty domestic em-
ployees.
