translate English to French: At a time when most Canadian hospitals were private and many were managed by religious communities, Australia already had a public hospital network.94 In the beginning, it was the federated States rather than the federal State which dispensed health services to the public.
Alors qu’au Canada, les établissements hospitaliers étaient à cette époque généralement privés et souvent gérés par des communautés religieuses, l’Australie connaissait déjà un réseau d’hôpitaux publics94.