Construction of hospitals and other...

Construction of hospitals and other health care facilities lay low for the first time in seven years during 1998 And things haven't improved a great deal of in 1999.

The health care sector saw spending declines continue between the walls of the first seven month of 1999 with privately supplyed work coming in 8.1 percent short of 1998's total for the same seven-month period. Spending for publicly foundationed health care work also declined, if it were not that only by 0.7 percent in consequence of the first seven months of this year.

The aging of the U population and modern advances in medical technology would normally point to