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1901 Daily Chron. 10 Sept. 6/2 The disease was spreading rapidly owing to the people refusing to hospitalise first cases.

1904 Daily Chron. 28 Oct. 8/3 The pauper who is hospitalised in an English casual ward.

1946 Nature 3 Aug. 170/1 Cases hospitalized in the Carmichael Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Calcutta.

1955 Sci. News Let. 15 Jan. 39/3 Surgery..was performed on 70% of the hospitalized children.

1961 Observer 19 Nov. 29/6 On the second day after the mutiny the ship's doctor insisted that the lives of a passenger and a wounded member of the crew depended on their being hospitalised.

1970 G. Greer Female Eunuch 239 The more the state undertakes to protect a man from illness..the more it has the right to sacrifice him..to hospitalize his children.

1909 in Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang.

1918 A. Woollcott Let. 12 Jan. (1946) 40 My present brief hospitalization is traceable to eye-strain.

1932 Nation 25 May 604 The activities of the Legion..began with a demand for pensions and hospitalization for those disabled in war service.

1937 R. S. Morton Woman Surgeon vi. 70 The systematic hospitalization of the sick poor furnished a wealth of clinical material.

1967 Spectator 28 July 114/1 Private hospitalisation and medicine has been increased in price by this Government so that, while the rich people can cope, the moderately well off can no longer do so.

1971 E. V. Cowdry & F. U. Steinberg Care of Geriatric Patient (ed. 4) xxvii. 352/1 Application of new scientific knowledge to clinical medicine has profoundly affected the hospitalization requirements of elderly patients.