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accepted and endorsed the "Minimum Standard". 

 These include the following: 



The American Hospital Association. 



The Canadian Medical Association. 



The Catholic Hospital Association. 



The Conference Board of Hospitals, and Homes of 

 the Methodist Church. 



The Medical and Surgical Section of the American 

 Railroad Association. 



The Methodist Hospital Association. 



The Protestant Hospital Association. 



The American Conference on Hospital Service. 



We see therefore that this modern movement for hos- 

 pital betterment and classification is not the work of a 

 single organization, but represents the ideas and aims 

 of all the large organizations interested in hospitals. 

 Endorsing the ''Minimum Standard" in 1919 Father 

 Clias. B. Moulinier, President of the Catholic Hospital 

 Association, made the following statement: "I pledge 

 to the American College of Surgeons with my personal 

 honor and all the official capacity I have, that the Cath- 

 olic Association with whatever force and power it has, 

 the clergy of the Catholic Church and that great body 

 of twenty or thirty thousand sisters working in Catholic 

 hospitals are going to co-operate with the College to the 

 highest point." 



The American College of Surgeons made a survey of 

 all general hospitals of 100 or more beds in the United 

 States and Canada in 1920, and they are now making 

 a survey of all general hospitals between 50 and 100 beds. 

 All hospitals which conform to the ''Minimum Stand- 

 ard" will be rated as Class "A". 



The progress of the movement has been rapid. In 

 1918, only 89 of the 761 larger general hospitals met 

 the "Minimum Standard". In the next year, 198 ful- 

 filled the requirements. In 1920, 407, and in 1921, 579 

 or 75% of the larger general hospitals had conformed 

 to this standard. 25% of the 764 smaller hospitals al- 

 ready visited were found to meet the standard. 



