Municipal hospitals commonly offer services free or at low cost for the poorer members of their community.
Local authorities in urban areas commonly built hospitals in the nineteenth century either to deal with the threat of smallpox or as shelters for the poor and homeless.
Shenzhen municipal government constructed and provided funding for the University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital, which opened in 2012.
Surat Municipal Institute of Medical Education and Research in Gujarat was established in 2000.
The Local Government Act 1929 empowered local authorities to appropriate infirmaries and fever hospitals from Poor law unions and abolished the Metropolitan Asylums Board, whose hospitals were transferred to the control of the London County Council as in the rest of the country.
Poor Law Unions did not match local authorities boundaries so not all councils had a hospital in their area.
It was not uncommon for a workhouse and Poor Law infirmary in one Public Assistance Institution to share a site, as in Manchester, Darlington and Hastings.
Lake Taylor Transitional Care Hospital was established by Norfolk City Council, in Virginia, in 1890.
[6] Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center was run by the City of Baltimore until 1984.