| | | -- -------------------------------------------- Proportion of | | | Beds to | | | Population.

| | | -- -------------------------------------------- Proportion of | | | Dispensaries to | | | Population.

| | | -- -------------------------------------------- It will be observed that in this second table the items are not identical with those in the preceding table.

In the place of hospitals we have beds; because in relation to the area the thing of importance is the number of the hospitals; but in relation to population the thing of importance is the number of beds available.

Two hospitals in a single area are probably not in the same place and imply more widespread influence; but if each has twenty beds, in proportion to population it is of no importance whether the forty beds are in one place or two: forty in-patients fill the beds.
But in medical work, when we are considering the need of the district, another factor of importance often enters.