Bulletin of the History of Medicine

Data derived from VA Annual Reports, 1947, 1952, 1967, 1980, 1991

Sources: “Administrator of Veterans Affairs Annual Report, 1947” (Washington, D.C., U.S. Government Printing Office, 1947), p. 96 (hospital beds tallied as 101,000 and psychiatric beds tallied as 55,513; census of patients in hospitals tallied at 91,224 and in psychiatric hospitals tallied at 51,907). “Administrator of Veterans Affairs Annual Report, 1952” (Washington, D.C., U.S. Government Printing Office, 1953), p. 143 (total operating hospital beds tallied at 110,243 and total operating psychiatric beds tallied at 51,626; total patients remaining in hospitals tallied at 96,888 and in neuropsychiatric hospitals, 48,318). “Administrator of Veterans Affairs Annual Report, 1967” (n. 22), p. 202 (total operating hospital beds tallied at 115,193 and total operating psychiatric beds tallied at 56,203; average daily patient census in hospitals tallied at 103,394 and in psychiatric hospitals, 51,667). “Administrator of Veterans Affairs Annual Report, 1980” (Washington, D.C., U.S. Government Printing Office, 1980), p. 102 (total operating hospital beds tallied at 101,056 and average daily patient census in hospitals tallied at 70,251), p. 17 (total operating psychiatric hospital beds tallied at 24,332 and average daily patient census in “psychiatric bed sections” calculated as 21,018). “Annual Report of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs/Department of Veterans Affairs” (Washington, D.C., U.S. Government Printing Office, 1991), p. 31 (operating hospital beds tallied at 88,201 and operating psychiatric beds tallied at 20,049), p. 31 (average daily patient census tallied at 44,928 in hospitals and 13,689 in psychiatric beds).