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MARCH ao ditions. But services are being FO, - a. Ft. . continued to preserve the wild lite Highway Improvements. tor a return of tourist business "No Province or State on this con- t!ttr. the war. Propagation and tinent can show higher types of distribution of fish in suitable highways, more scientifically de. waters also is not being curtailed, signed structures or a more effi- and more than 693,000,000 fish have ycient network of secondary roads " been liberated during 11 months of 'iMr. Gordon reported. "Alignment. l the "Y'"".. opi'rating year. Capi" articles and structures incorporated Hal t'xu"tryliPrei, however, have linto the trunk highways will stand he?" .continol mostly to improving' [for generations." The Province had htyiltiings on hatchery properties, assumed the entire cost of main with I't'onomy lwing carried PVC" Io Iliighways, and counties and town- . the elimination of metal hunting '5hips were now receiving dollar t'cr license badger. idollar and in some poorer and. Lowest T.B. Death Rate. 1,svorsely settled sections even great- Ontario last year had the lowest 'it'"' help. Extension of four-lane high- 'uuhercuios,ir; death rate in Canada, "vars to relieve congestion on the the Minister reported, though the imam tourist and industrial routes year "opened with a challenge Elli bouthern Ontario had reached which at. the outset seemed insur- 181.m.iles. . mountable." Health of civilian peo- . Highway Department expenditures ples of the Province had been main- lrom NO" I, 1934, to Feb. 28, 1943, tinned "on levels that are eminently were 3W0" fs $218,349r45t.h.7.'2 on capi- satisfactory and widely acclaimed." pl and mainten.an.ce, ""311 revenue Typhoid also has been reduced to It.. the same p,eri,od ofs255,.3'21,'?81 the lowest figure on rerord, a death with a steady increase in motor rate of .136 per 100,000 of population. will"? registrations... . , Other related diseases of sanitation fel/l. expenditures on King's had shown corresponding reduction, mama}? and secondary roads last cliiolly through greater supervision it)" was: Emilio (',l"h?/i1U"f,tit,i, over water and milk supplies. Mass ilJ1dlfif'd'1 {themNiaC war f,' Irie. ey Xjray examinations in war industry, inections im t'ovengztlictl all"?! "it" with more than 135.000 examina- [from Nia a: a d 'dll, BF?" es tions already conducted. had aided iWindsor ',',iltiasa'l.',lfii,, or "e to materially in the fight. again.st i "The opening ointlie Trans-Canada , . , cr (,l1at/g"lloi1sin 1Ti,aJ.a"e'irerous In ii-Iighway has given Canada its first Mr Gordon summarized other Icoast-to-coast route, ready for mill. . . . '. " . iarv needs if the necessity arises " health achievements in , Ontario's l.) ' Mi ist . ., . d of ' 'r'e' r, wartime picture as: Prevention of if": a mm 01. ffyy'l/y: thet med" spread from army camp to camp _l.included part of a direct connection . between military camps at Camp through the Province of any out- .Borden and Petawawa and roads to break of diphtheria; extensive work 1meet the needs of war industries for the armed forces by the Divi- Il": gamma to Oshawa and south sion of Laboratories: loan ot a de- i rom arnia. . partmcnt physicianI as medical 1 With passenger traific down, in.. director for tho Allied War Sup- lcreascd 1tyclilyr.lingts are reported plies Corporation; $74000 spent in on all main highways. Reconstruc- the tirst three years of war to com- lilo" on trunk higlyvays will be bat venereal disease in the armed |necessary (n U1? coming 3:911? where forces. In the wartime pressure on pmcmenrs .hme bile" In "frwce child life and maternal mortality more. than 20 y.ey's, and 1eisigp.ed Ontario has lost fewer mothers than (,eirii'ihtPJ,rriv/,ih1eir incorohgggttfzz ttr . " . - . ' ,.. c ll I)':',:)",',?,','.',:?,,",,'):,",',')))?,');)""),,,'?,,"; the Geraldzon' to Hearst connection births, and the threatened increase ot f1}? [l/ill', 1/'y1tf,c?.e.fla.ylg1iyy' in. infant mortality, Mr. .Gordon fogfh-'Zifilciigielnlaggn51:0b21913"139:: said. had been held to an Increase pared a v p a B p of 2.3 or 45.2 deaths per 1.000 living ' _ . _ . h year. Provincial War Emergency Training Program was cited by Mr. Gordon as "the most shining example" of its part in the war effort. Close to 100,000 men and women of Ontario Ihad been enrolled to meet the de- lmands of industry arid the fighting forces for skilled and semi-skilled _ workers; 23,000 of them had been trained for the armed forces. In- . struction had been conducted in 42 V vocational schools and the Aircraft Training School now has an enrol- . ment of over 1,000.