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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
  Manitoba6 Saskatchewan7 Alberta8 British Columbia9
  number
Number of institutions 3 2 3 3
Inmates (beginning of year) 1,201 1,681 968 1,884
Admissions 211 532 356 475
Discharges and deaths 159 446 277 439
Improved or cured - - 131 118
Inmates (end of year) 1,343 1,767 1,047 1,995
Staff        
Doctors 268 7 - 9
Nurses - 317 - -
  $
Revenue        
  Government grants - - 45,890 530,946
  Fees 52,038 139,222 7,452 105,820
  Total 90,322 - 55,154 636,766
Expenditure        
  Salaries 196,347 235,316 16,000 267,958
  Buildings and equipment - 450,929 - 137,088
  Total 274,804 686,245 30,484 676,766
Source: Statistics Canada, The Canada Year Book, 1927/1928.