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To Extend Accommodation. l [IRE HEA Dealing with the problem of thcl, mentally ill, Mr. Kirby informed the House that the Department of Public Works was now engaged in the preparation of plans for ex- , tensions lo present. a.cc't.ommodatiou/ As far as tuberculosis was con-' f cerned, Mr. Kirby voiced the con-t viction that if the present. program! was continued and extended. somel day, in the not too distant future,- . . . tuberculosis would be wiped out: Minister Outlines Plan entirely and existing sanatoria' of Insurance as Link would then be used for the treat." . . . , mcnt of other diseases. , With Dominion Scheme ' Mr. Kirby visualized a health . 3 insurance plan where the relation- The broad outlines of a health? ship between the patiout and the insurance plan which Ontario isI physician y/ly be even closer . ' T _ . I than at present. ready to put into operation in co-i "I look forward to a plan whore operation with the Dominion were! the physician's contract. under the explained to the Legislature yester-f scheme will require him to instruct, day by Health Minister Harold Kit? the 1yll1cr.n,1.o1ei','.ts to how_ to . . keep her infant ("lilit'i developing by. .ric spoke on the Governments normally," continued the Minister. motior) to sct ul, a social "WNW. "In this scheme the physician will committee. he paid to protect the pre-school Despite. thc advances made by child against. communicable disease Ontario In. combating disease, It through a definite program of im.. "as his opinion, and those of his muuization," said Mr. Kirby. "And officer-s that the Province must go it "in ho his duty when the child still further along the road i", is sent home from a school clinic health legislation. Mr. Kirby told) with a note from the nurse or phy- the HOUSC- He CxprCsscd tho hOPCE sician. to see that the necessary that when the Province embarkt-di remedies are applied, whether they on a health insurance plan it; take the form of providing-glasses wculd not be "just another incdicai or removal of tonriils, care plan like all the other tio- "Such a progranl to be effective called health insurance programs." must. be national in its scope and It must be a plan to kcep the citi- must receive Federal support," de.. zens well, not mcrt'ly to treat them dated the Health Minister "The when they were sick, he said. Department of Health in Ontario i, The Minister admitted that the , in a position to know what will con- Province could not. go very far stitute a satisfactory piozram when ;alone in financing any large ex- we know where the money is t'OlIl- itended program with Provincial in; from to pal the cost." (revenues curbed for the duration ot 'the war. Extensions must lake place with Federal aid, Mr. Kirby declared. In this connection he re- vealed that during the past few months officials of his department had been in close touch with Ot- ' -tawa authorities, advising and as- _ 'sisting in the preparation of a ,Dominion-wide health program. "Badly Needed" Services. , Mr. Kirby outlined what be de- scribed as "some of the badly need- ed" health services urgently re- quired for the betterment of health conditions in Ontario. They were: (1) A proper cancer research and treatment foundation: (2) erection of more hospitals for the incurables - and convalescent hospitals to re- lieve overcrowding and congestion in treatment. centres; (3 additional r" accommodation to house the men- tally ill. particularly mental defec- tives; (4) extension of present. sana- ,toria to provide the necessary beds for more tuberculosis patients; (5) the setting up of county health units with a view to education and preventive medicine. In his brief reference to cancer, Mr. Kirby said this dread disease must be more courageously dealt with than in the past. Regardless of whose responsibility it was to find the money, some action must be taken to set up a proper cancer research and treatment foundation, he asserted. "While this Province has gone! far to assist in the treatment of; . the disease and has aided in some research. nevertheless Governments! must go much further than they have in the past if the ravages of! this disease are to be eliminated,"! said the Minister. ,