History Helps Volume Six, Number 5, April 2006
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• Greetings
• The Burrard Sanitarium
• Helpful Website
• Subscription, Privacy Policy

HAPPY EASTER! HAPPY SPRING!

The Burrard Sanitarium, Vancouver, B.C.

“FIRST ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BURRARD SANITARIUM LIMITED

And Second Report for the Institution

A PHENOMENAL RECORD

Upwards of one hundred surgical operations were performed, all with complete success, and only one death out of over two hundred patients treated. Seven patients were in the Sanitarium at the opening of the year, 205 were admitted during the year, making a total of 212 treated. Of these 99 were males and 113 females. 112 were surgical, 81 medical and 19 obstetrical. 12 patients remained in at the close of the year.

The total days treatment were 3190, an average of 19.46 days per patient.

Out of the 212 patients treated only one death occurred, being less than 1/2 of 1 per cent. This one death was due to suppurative pyelitis, complicated with heart disease.

Patients were admitted from the following localities: --

Vancouver	148		Ladner	2
Vananda Bay	1		New Westminster	2
Port Haney	1		Alder Grove	1
Kamloops	1		Collingwood	1
Lillooet	1		Van Gaud	1
Alberni	1		Brandon, Man	1
Mandow, Man.	1		Barnard	1
Harriot Bay	2		Washington State	1
Westham Island	1		Seattle, Wash	1
North Vancouver	4		Rock Bay	1
Dawson	1		Central Park	1
Salmon Arm	1		Lytton	1
Ladysmith	2		Port Hammond	1
Leduc, Alta.	1		Lund	1
Mt. Lehman	1		Revelstoke	2
Atlin	2		Calgary	3
Keefer Station	1		Rock Bay	1
Didsbury, Alta.	1		Souris, Man.	1
Epworth	1		Chilliwack	3
Sudbury	1		Miand [Miami?], Man	1
Naas River	1		Summerland	3
White Horse,Yukon	1		Eburne	1

 

The Baths and Massage Department have been eminently successful under the management of Miss Millington. During the year, 954 treatments were given, and as the patronage has gradually increased, it has become necessary to engage an assistant. Early in the year a souvenir prospectus was published and copies mailed to the many friends of the institution.

The offices, reception rooms, halls and most of the private wards have been neatly painted and decorated, adding greatly to their appearance. The increase of our work in the East End has necessitated the opening of branch offices in that part of the city for the convenience of our patrons.”

Source: The Delta Times, March 24, 1906, page one.

[Note: “suppurative pyelitis” is a pus-oozing inflammation of the renal pelvis, according to the Concise Oxford Dictionary (1984).]

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