For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
HOSPITAL. Any institution or place used for the harboring or the reception, care and treatment (including treatments known as rest cure, physical culture, hydropathic massage and all other forms of drugless treatment) of two or more persons suffering from or afflicted with any mental or physical disease, ailment, sickness, bodily injury, alcohol or drug addiction; or any institution or place for the reception and care, temporary or continuous, of one or more women during pregnancy while awaiting confinement, during confinement or for one month or less after confinement, while recovering therefrom.
('73 Code, § 16-58)