Excerpt from Report of Hospital Conference Held at Boston, October 23, 1922
Therefore, the report that is presented here with and which covers the 1922 survey, includes both the usual annual report on the hospitals of 100 or more beds and the first annual report on the hospitals having from 50 to 100 beds.
A summary of the results of the reports for the five years is as follows: In 1918, of the institutions having 100 or more beds, 89 were found to meet the standard; in 1919, 198 fulfilled the requirements; in 1920, 407, or 57 per cent, met the standard; in 1921 the number of approved hospitals grew to 579. Or 76 per cent; and this year 677, or 83 per cent, of the 812 hundred-bed general hospitals are on the approved list.
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