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ever, a general idea of the types of service rendered in the average hospital.


The Indian Service reported that it operated during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1926, sixty-two school, agency, and school and agency hospitals. These hospitals represented a total capacity of 1672 beds, with a total of 264,714 days of hospital treatment rendered. The available hospital days of treatment would equal tht total number of beds (1672) multiplied by 365, or 610,280. It is obvious, then, that approximately 43 per cent of available bed capacity was utilized. These data may be conveniently subdivided for each class of hospital, as follows: