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« ® € NSEA ngBar He considered that it would be better to ONTARIO LEGISLATU RE. have a few good hospitals in the cities than alarge number of poor ones scattered through «on ----(tgz--_--.__--& the country. Ts H ----Thj CUnaa! | Mr, WOOD denied that there was any par. Third Parliament Third Session, { tiality exercised by the Government. y';E'he ue n > | hospitals received aid according to Lraisiartive AssexgBuy, results, and the work at Guelph, instead Wednesday, Feb. 20. of beigg id cgnfirtx,gtti to tone hospital, m s «hnt 1 c was ivide ween two --one a The Speaker took the chair at 3 o'clock. Protestant -- and the _ other a Roman Prawers were read by the Rev. Joseph D. Catholic. ! King (Baptist). _ Mr. WILSON considered that the hospi-- | PETITIONS. ;(le in gities were not receiving any too The following petitions were presented:-- nlmuclrn s'n(ti frodm:he GDVergn_lent in view of Mr. Broder--Of James Corry, et al. of the grea go? ney.were oing. } Mountain, praying for the removal of a dam Mr. GIBSON said that the hospitals on Petit Nation River. were of greater benefit to the cities in which oys Of the County Council of they were situated than to the country, and M_r. 'Vxls'on-- o. NOuB g * is to th the cities should take into consgideration PEI"".""' praying for certain amendments to the the large grants given in their aid by the Railway Act, Government when they demandedthe aboli-- REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. tion of tax exemptions, F8 Mr, HODGIN3S thought it would be Mr. BETHUNE presented the't.rergoif i,f;f , worth the consideration of the Government the Committee on the Pill respecting High | whether they should not encourage the Schools. i estaplishment of poor houses throughout the I Mr. CLARKE (Wellington) presented the > Province, There were only four counties in first report of the Public Accounts Commit-- which the municipal authorities had estab--| tee. l lished such institutions. _ He did not | Mr. WOOD presented the report of the think they should be supported at the un-- Committee on the Bills respecting line fences, aided expense of the municipalities which ditching, and the appointment of county established them. valuators. Mr, CLARKE (Norfolk) said that the poor THIRD READINGS. from all parts of the Province were sent to R P taq I | the Toronto Hospital, and these persons _ The following Bills were read a third | [:were generally count,cd as bclong,gng to time :-- | Toronto. (" No, no.") He knew that to be | Relating to the Hamilton and North-- the fact, and it was done because they had ' western Rail way Company-- Mr. Williams. ' no status. If poor houses were made im--| Respecting the fiegistration of lisilway I perative throughout the country, it would | Aid Scrip~--Mr, Wood,. relieve the 'FToronto Hospital of many t sUPPLY patients that were sent there now, | f NMr. BARR was of opinion that the coun-- The House then again went into Com-- f try municipalities should be aided more : mittee of Supply, Mr, Clarke (Wellington) than they were by the Government, and that in the chair. they should be assisted in establishing poor ; The following items stood : houses. 2 §# institution for the Blind, Brantford, Mr, MILLER was opposed to increasing | $12,740 for salaries, $28,015 for expenses. the present tax upon the revenue of the | _ Ammigration, $37,500. Province for the support o]t' charitable in-- R k Ubure stitutions, He did not think there was any On t.he item 5,103'4".0. for {\gflc" * injustice in the system now in vogue of Arts, Literary and Scientific Institutes, | granting aid to these institutions, but he Inquiries relative to the grant to the | preferred that the charitable among the peo-- | Hamilton Horticultral Society, printing of 1 ple should be required to support them, and | reports, bureau of statistics, the Museum of that the habit of looking to the Government / Seeds, &c., which were replied to by Mr. for everything should be discouraged, | Wood, after which, Mr, BAXTER referved to the system re-- Mr. MEREDITH said that bhe thought cently established in connection with the more money should be given to Mechanics Toronto Hospital, of admitting four patients Institutes to enable them to establish for treatment on receipt of $50. 'This, he schools of design,. The mechanical and believed, would tend to popularize the in-- | artizan class' interests should not be ignored. i stitution, which he considered was now one | He hoped that the Minister would care for | of the first hospitals on this continent, and ' this in the supplementary estimates. | well worthy of being liberally encouraged \__ Mr, WOOD said the Government had un-- | and patronized. If county councils would ' | der consideration such an application from | avail themsclves of the avrangement to | London and Toronto. | which he had referred, there would be no l tE ma . s l a need of their establishing local institutions, | The 1tcx'n was thc'n ]'masul. . ' and their sick would be taken care of both ' On the item of $66,638 for hospitals and | cheaply and well. | charities, _ _ y | Mr. FERRIS could not bring himself to Mr. CAMERON complained that there was | the sonclusion that most of the patients in not suflicient aid given towards the main-- the Toronto Hospital were trom country tenance of hospitais in comparison with what , districts, but he did not sympathise with was granted to insane asylums in the Pro-- | those gentlemen who were in favour of the vince. | establishment of a poor--house system in Mr. MACDGUGALL (Simeoe) referred to this country, _ He believed that the system a petition in favour of the establishment of } of aiding the poor by out--door relief would hospitals for incurables, which he consid-- not only be cheaper, but more agrecable to ered was worthy of the consideration of the the poor themselves than by poor--houses, Government, Mr. CROOKS congratulated the House Mr. WOOD agreed with the last two upon the fact that instead of the Toronto speakers as to the great advantage of the Hospital being, as it formerly was, rather institutions to which they referred, and .discreditable to them, it was now the model thought the Government would probably be { hospital of the Dominion, and now Mon-- disposed to consider their suggestions. | treal was following them instead of them Mr. ROSS agreed with the hon. member l following Montreal, _ 'The Hospital is now for South Simcoe as to the desirability of in a state of financial L'-tl'l,:l}gtll, instead of the Government adopting some broad and chronic embarrassment. _ 'The Hospital is | liberal scheme for the care of incurables. | now one that all others regard as the stand-- | Many municipalities were now supporting ard. this class of sufferers at their own expense. Mr. ROSS thought that the Toronto He commended the Govermment for their Hospital was more of a Provincial character liberal policy with regard to hospitals and than any other, In the case of those hospi-- charities, but he thought the cities were re-- tals to which they would incline to be ceiving more aid than the rural districts. liberal they found that considerably less Mr. LAUDER wanted to know the reason than one--half of the patients came that two hospitals were aided at Guelph. from the outlying districts. Many of these