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Large Institutions Win Top StandingsBy C. V. COM BE/GREATER Winnipeg hospitals provided modern health restorationcare for around 53.00(1 sick, injured or helpless persons during1017. The\ discharged an average of 145 persons daily, including 25new-born babies. All the larger institutions have earned “A. orhighest efficiency rating from travelling inspectors of the AmericanCollege of Surgeons. Local hospitals, with 3,125 beds and budgetsaggregating $3,330,000 annually,#------are an important local industry, attracting patients from far across the Dominion.Even more patients were cared for by “out-patient departments. These gave 300,000 consultations to 67,000 men, women and children. Many of these were admitted to hospital for needed “in-treatment.With their splendid equipment of 3,125 beds and 246 bassinets (for new-born babiesj Winnipeg hospitals guard community well-being 24 hours in the day. They have adequate medical staffs — 67 internes, 342 graduate and 630 student nurses, 13 dietitians and 1,128 others on the staffs, making a total personnel apartfrom attending physicians of 2,243 persons.Big CapacityHospitals of Greater Winnipeg, with their bed capacities and total personnel, exclusive of attending physicians, listed according to •ize, are: \Nsms B»dtGeneral ......... 627St. Boniface 520Municipal........ 330Misericordla ..... 285St. Boniface Sanatorium ...... 268Deer Lodge Vets.. 250 (11a ce ........... 214C h i 1 d r e n’s andShriner*' ...... 135St. Joseph's ..... 125Victoria ......... 124St. Roch’s 300Concordia ....... 50Convalescent ..... 50Central Tuberculosis Clinic .... 47of baby and public health to homes, schools, lay clinics for mothers, far-flung little outposts in the war against disease. A school of nursing is a cornerstone in the structure of a modern hospital.Hospital leaders know that filth, poverty and ignorance breed disease and death. So they organize social welfare departments which demonstrate to mothers in poorer areas just how things might he managed better even on their scanty resources. And they help in a material way, as need warrants.These public contact departments fit into the general plan to educate the public in health insurance. The doctor in the only professional man in the world whose life ambition is to work himself out of a job. Preventat ve medicine illustrates this very well.But the hospitals’ most vital community service is perhaps that of preparing young doctors to succeed the older men who guard human life.The hospitals of Greater Winnipeg are “big business in 'a financial way. It costs more than $1,000 a ear to maintain each of this community’s 3.125 hospital beds -$3,300,000 in an average year. Almost all of this monpj is expended in Greater Winnipeg. Taking all Manitoba and mental institutions into the picture, total expendituresexceed $5,500,000 annually.Hospital payrolls In Greater Winnipeg are $1,480,000 a year, $123,000 a month, $4,100 a day, $512 a business hour. The hospitals spend nearly $1,000,000 a year on provisions, fuel, light, power, ice, refrigeration, machinery, tools, plumbing, steam-fitting and similar services.It would take a powerful corporation to meet a payroll of $4,100 a day, seven days a week and a local purchases account of $3,000 a day in addition for supplies. This community has the benefit of the best modern hospital protection, from institutions which pump more than $7,000 a day into its economic life-stream.Personnel5903741672781588393348887123J2424Totals ........ 3.125 2.243Large hospitals have no idle beds, except in summer, to care for victims in case of flood, train wreck, cyclone or fire. In such an emergency they would transfer convalescing patients to mattresses in corridors and so care for the Injured. Their personnel of 2.243 persons is instantly mohilizahle day and night, with every doctor in the city standing by to help.These modern hospitals graduate 210 nurses a year. Later, these young women carry the evangel
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Winnipeg Tribune
Winnipeg, Manitoba, CA
Wed, May 11, 1938
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