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Page THE HERALD Jane DOWNTOWN GEORGETOWN Col Jimn returns home from the War In and here entering the as hundreds come out to him In the background Is the building which now the armoury used for training by lornr Scots Regiment Bootleg whiskey made good medicine CV arrived in Geo rgclown in fresh of medical school m Toronto and full or He s and to laugh at how shocked hi was by the less than hospital standard of cleanliness he sometimes countered Still he can list an number of health that came to Georgetown while he was practising hire He had and Ross for when so it took time to gel a practise worked up guess I had about 100 famUies In my practise after the first year he says He used a Model T Ford most of the time but he rented a horse for country calls if the roads were He was married a month alter he arrived in Georgetown and set up housekeeping with his bride in a house on Main Street froze there laughs and we had frogs in our basement Before long they rented a house on Queen Street for a month When Ihcj rmed rent to wt thought that was too much and we bought our own house on Mam Street he That house is now the Thorn Building al though they changed the inside of it at around now of course Dr and Mrs in thi and he turned the front room into an Georgetown residents re quiring hospital treatment had to go to or Toronto in the earl Since there were no wees they veiled train If patients were on a stretcher they were put in a freight car and the doctor win with them to we that they suffer fresh injuries on the trip Brampton Hoop when first opened was in a three stores private residence Pat to be carntd up and down the stair on stretchers 1 suppose there was an orderly around to help some times William but the doctors and grabbed an and helped cam patients most of the The lown was irately 3 WO arrived He became of Health n thereabouts and received the sum of a year for the He proudly that per cent of parents in were willing and ious to have their children vaccnated for fir a when fm cl tics were set in the public school the This a backward community you know he says He is also proud of tie enlightened council the town bad In 1ST or so because it passed a bylaw farting local dairies to milk far gale In Georgetown A young child In the area died of meningitis and traced It to milk he says We wire the first municipality outside of Toronto to have a past cur lied milk bylaw The province didn pass that kind of leglsla for quite a few years after wc had it He remembers visiting a home for predelinquent girls The United Church Department of Evangelism supported the place and a Miss Oliver ran It There were Mglrls then at a turn he says and they stayed two to five yean depending on their maturity They in age from five or six to twelve So far as he knows none of the girls had ever been in problems that landed them in court they just came from such bad homes that they had taken out of the situations they became deli They would Slav it Cedar vale until they were able to gel jobs to support themselves None of them were adopted and none of them got into any troubles he heard about after they left When his practise wus firm established Dr Williams had patients from Scotch Block and Terra and all over Georgetown He worked days a week and every night Satur day was his big night People came to town to see the show on Saturday when it was over d stop around to see me about their ailments Then wu- no such thing appointment so I often busy until clock on a Saturday hi Since there was no suih thing as an a day off he used to take a month at the cottage with his every just to get to know he jokes Babies arrived at home when Williams first came to town He tried to persuade mothers to come for prenatal care but lot of people though It was unnecessary especial the husbands he grins He charged for prenatal care delivery and the check that followed the birth He had practical nurses to assist at a home delivery but they were untrained and used to appall him in the beginning with their primitive ideas of sterility He got used to it though and discovered that babies were hardier than text books and medical instructors would lead you to believe Although some doctors per formed minor surgery in their awn offices with a practical nurse to administer the chloro- Williamsdid whether he had much business In the line of wife or child illegitimate ir the of read in the daily papers he grins Wc were a grand community and too pun to git Into any of Hi and admits that wen a few drunks of course but lift was much and pressures were a lot lest than virluilly known In town smug is lint but could jet Jobs if they Hinted Hum hive pro ms we fin especially Christmas Whiskey was the medicine we prescribed for those kles but I don I know how much fun they gel out of dim ih shot for their even have gone doctors to get a daily supply These men were on by their He the of itiun diet in Ik unkind your whskty Hi were not far from Georgetown but hi had a lot of 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