Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania - Record Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

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The University Hospital The University Hospital is situated in West Philadelphia on the University Campus, and extends from 34th Street to 36th, and from Spruce Street to Pine. Q ' In l874, the main building of the Hospital and one Wing were opened for the reception of patients and for purposes ,of clinical instruction. From year to year various buildings and departments have been added. Today the University Hospital is one of the best-equipped institutions of its kind in the country. The Hospital has accommodation for 429 patients in the lo Wards, 50 private rooms, and Z9 semi- private beds. There are 5 amphiitheatres for clinical instruction-, and 6 operating rooms. The special dis- pensaries, lZ in number, 'have caredifor more than a quarter of a million patients since the Hospital was first opened. The outlying buildings are the Isolation -Building, the Maternity Hospital, lllortuary and Chapel, the Laundry, the Dormitories for Nurses, and the Nurses, Home. The Hospital is furnished with av fine X-ray Laboratory, supplied with apparatus for every form of ex- amination and treatment in this department. ' Q 1 The Medical Staff of the Hospitalconsists of 150 physicians and l7O nurses. 2 5'

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s an Expression of Oilr Affection and Tendert'Regar We Declifcate This Book tfTo the .Memory of Our,C1assmates who Gave 'Their Lives in the Influenza Epidemic Olctoher Twelfth- and Thirteenth Nineteen Hundred and Eighteen 4