Hospitals in Canada.

  • Canada. Department of National Health and Welfare.
Date:
1955
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Hospitals in Canada. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Buy TABLE 2. BEDS APPROVED FOR CONSTRUCTION AND ESTIMATED BEDS COMPLETED UNDER THE HOSPITAL CONSTRUCTION GRANT PROGRAM: BY TYPE OF BED, MAY 1948 TO DECEMBER 31, 1954 Estimated Estimated Approved Beds Completed |Beds Completed Beds Approved Type of Bed to to During Calendar|But Not Completed Dec. 31, 195k|Dec. 31, 195349)| year 195444) |Dec. 31, 195442 Active Treatment 7,843 Chronic-Convalescent vie 1,047 Mental 1,22 7,018 (b) Estimates not calculated, Source; Records of the Health Grants Administration, Department of National Health and Welfare. Types of Bed Facilities Hospitals today include general hospitals which accept patients suffering from a great variety of acute and chronic conditions, and allied special hospitals which have been de- veloped for specific groups such as the chronically ill, the convalescent, maternity patients, persons suffering from communicable diseases and the orthopaedically disabled. Other special types of hospitals exist for the care of the tuberculous and the mentally ill. Of the 169,922 beds existing in 1953, general and allied special hospitals comprised 92,120 or more than one- half of the total as shown in Table 3 below; 60,565 or about 36 percent of the beds were in mental hospitals and 17,237 or about 10 percent in tuberculosis sanatoria. In terms of population, there were 6.2 general and allied special beds per thousand persons; 4:1 mental hospital beds per thousand; and 1.2