Page 239 - Annuaire Statistique Québec - 1918

PUBLIC CHARITIES 209

HOSPITALS. MATERNITIES AND FOUNDLING HOSPITALS.
There were 61 hospitals, maternities and foundling hospitals III
the Province in 1925; the patients admitted into these institutions in
the same year numbered 65,226. The number of physicians in attendance
was 523, in 1925, as against 262, in 1914.

10S-Statement showing the Number of Institutions, Staff and Patients for the years
1920-1925.
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CLASSIFlCATlON 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925
Num!>.r of bo.pitals " ............ 1 no 411 52 62 62 M
Number Df mn ternilie8 ............. 1 4 4 4 4 4 4
Number of foundling ho.-;piLals ...•. 2 2 2 2 3 3
Number of PhysiciaoA... , .........
Number DI Durses : Te1igiouB ......... 400 369 443 373 4.l4 523
'ay ... .. . ....
Number of other employee•.. ....... 017 848 1,048 1,0;'3 920 1.036
Number of p~tienls on Lhe lst. Jan .. 902 ü19 857 796 U91 1,569
Num!:er of ""tient••dmitted during 1,1.13 1.160 1,370 1,034 1,379 1,319
the ye[lT ...........•..•........ 4,782 3,085 3,342 2,972 3.443 3..'\.12
Nurnbcr or patient. on tbe 31.t De· 51,389 52,938 501 ,.530 48,135 52,020 65,~:l6
cember.... _...... ' .. ' ....... ' . 4,159 3,307 3,290 2,810 3,4-12 4,331
N urobeT 0" pRtien tB decea.sed during 3,849 3,304 3,460 3,210 3,792 4,614
the yeaf. ........ .. .....
I09-Classlfication of Pntients Admilted.
CLA~::lIF[CATION
-~--_ .. 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925
Numher of C' "UiI\:fL ~drnitted ..... ---- ----- ----- ---- -----
Number or plltienta of ether nat.ionA- 40,5S0 39,031 48,2501 37,382 48,981 52,785
litles ndrnllted ....... ' .. ' ....... 5,371 7,393 9,551 0,253 9,848 11.253
Notionality. not Ggecified. . ....... 1,438 6,514 ... ....... .. .. 5,030
PaYlng pl1üent.8 fi mlt.t.ed .......... 18,031 17,652 "Ù)il5' Il ,976 18,688 19,078
Part pf:l:ying po.l\cnls .. . ....... .... . 11,245 12,902 12,675 7,386 8,082 11,231
Non-paying patienle............•. 16,837 15.fl29 20,327 15,018 19,281 20.671
Nurnhr of beds for patients........ 5,297 4,916 5,001 '1,218 5.572 5,010
Ambulaoce cali.................... 11),020 10,409 8,395 7,916 6,281 7,617
It is. noticeahle from the following table that the lllajority of the
diseases treated are genet'al or epidemic 01' deal with the digestive
organs, The patients coming within the categories mentioned, totalled
14,949 in 1925,

llO-Classification of Patients according to Nature of DiseaBe.

Dl8EASES TIŒATED 1020 1925
6,010 6,781
GonClfU or epidernic . 2,273 .~,007
Of the nen'ou ~ Bj-·st..em " . . . . • . •. •• 1,214 2,342
Of the circulatoJ'Y F1y~leDl . 3,701 5,811
Of the re~piratOI)rsYf>tem. 6,555 8,168
Of the digestive .y.tem.
Of the genito-urinary orgM' and 4,347 4,062 6,404
aOneXeb.. . . . ... '. , ...• 4.074 4,1H 3,881
Puerperal .tnte .. " ....
Of t.be s....in and ceUt1J ti.ssue'J ... 2,633 2,210 2,013
or the IOcOTnolor OJW:lll'a. .... 1,081 1,107 1,677
Derel'tive con(orffioL20D. 625 607 498
Conffp.nilrJ dehilily, diseaa:e~" 'of
c~tildren ..•. 2,074 3,068 2,719
Oln "gû . 171 09 152
AffecLio~ due ta e:derunl ('a.U3es
{o.ttcmpl nt suicide. ilccideots,
vioJence. et.c.) ' , .•.. 2,258 2,1", 4,525 2,285 2,598 2,875
Unknown 01 ill-delined disea.e•..... 1,1l(l:~ 446 1,383 3,63'1 5,390 1,999
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TOTAL. 51,017
8f.a-l.ist-ics (lf 8etlevoJenL InslÙ:uJ.ir.m,s.
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