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Statistics of hospitals for mentally defective people, by province, latest year reported

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Statistics of hospitals for mentally defective people, by province, latest year reported
  Prince Edward Island1 Nova Scotia2 New Brunswick3 Quebec4 Ontario5
  number
Number of institutions 1 21 1 6 12
Inmates (beginning of year) 308 1,491 703 6,724 9,144
Admissions 62 432 190 1,744 2,299
Discharges and deaths 71 384 85 1,464 1,919
Improved or cured - - 81 - 936
Inmates (end of year) 304 1,539 736 7,004 9,524
Staff          
Doctors 1 - - 34 28
Nurses - - - 1,206 1,491
  $
Revenue          
  Government grants - - - 1,236,262 -
  Fees - - 29,534 309,830 570,626
  Total 7,137 - 99,079 3,146,116 614,226
Expenditure          
  Salaries - - 50,865 483,329 1,213,251
  Buildings and equipment - - 26,030 519,380 613,023
  Total 129,953 - 196,328 3,077,000 2,775,169
Source: Statistics Canada, The Canada Year Book, 1927/1928.