Hospitals in the United Kingdom
Before the NHS started in 1947 there were a very large number of small hospitals.  It took over 1143 voluntary hospitals, with about 90,000 beds and 1545 municipal hospitals with about 390,000 beds.  The average number of people in hospital beds went down from about 410,00 in 1960 to 341,000 in 1974, though the number of people treated went up.