Daily British Whig (1850), 9 Jul 1918, p. 3

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\ cig Ca tu r ; | ONTARIO MILITARY SCENE AT WEDDING: » as mp--. Wednesday: Cool and Showery. HENNE NEESER YARN NANENN NR EENAE HOSPITAL, COBOURG A Rebuilding Station For Shattered Nerves. | --By A.M.I. i ™. Store Hours, 8.30 a.m. to 5'p.m. during July and August. A wide, leafy avendes, and in summer the streets are as beautiful as any i our fair Dominion. These points are all worthy of consideration from 'the In this war as in po former war, heavy artillery and high éxplosives play a leading part. This feature has brought about a typé casualty which was rarely known in other | viewpoint of the nerve specialist, for wars, namely, shell shock, bringing | quietness, closeness of nature, and with it mental of nervous disability, 'congenial and beautiful surroundit On various occasions prominent me- | are essential factors in the rebuilding dical men have tried to prove that | of shaftered nerve? there is really no such thing as shell! The hospital is on an ideal site, shock, but in dpite of that large num- | standjng on University avenue, look- bers of men are retnrning to Canada, ing southwards down College street, rendered unfit for further military | a wide maple-lined avenue leading to service by nervous or mental collapse, | the park on the lake front In for- due to the strain of modern warlare | mer yearg the main building was the and the conditions under which men | old Methodist College. Later it be- live and fight on the battlefields over- came an asylum, and when military seas. These men are, in many cases, | necessity required it was turned over in worse condition than those have lost 'their limbs, most skilled and careful and only the treatment will ever fit them for their former ci- vilian .occupations. Owing to the nature of «their dis. | of | ability, they seed special kinds treatment, and to facilitate their re- covery it is necessary that such cases be segregated and treated separately from mere surgical and medical cases. Fortunately for them, the medical staff of our army is fully alive to their needs, and have provided special hos. pitals for them, where every device and treatment known to the medical world is provided with a view to bringing about cures. It is to give 'Whig readers a pen picture of one o the finest of these institutions: that this article is being Written, The centre for such treatment in Ontario is at Cobourg, and the insti tution goes under the name of the © Ontario Military Hospital, Let us take first of all its situation. It is on the shores of Lake Ontario, " soine ninety miles from Kingston, and seventy miles from Toronto, so that it occupies a central position in the province. Three railway systems, the Gi. T. R., C. P.'R., and C. N. R, have stations in the down. Cobourg itself is a quiet little place of about 5.000 inhabitants, and has none of the . disturbing elements found in large cities or mm industrial centres. Within easy reach of the 'hospital in all di- rections are" pleasure parks, pleasant open country, and ideal toads for driving The 'town is laid out a fn wy Prescription Service At Best's" stores fs second to none. That it is appreciated is amply proven by the mamber of doctors wha send thelr prescrip- tions hero and by the hundreds of satisfied customers. Both at the main store and at the Branch a qualified drug- gist In always on the job, wait- ing to compound medicine | which may mean life or death, This service means long, weary hours and careful, try- ing watchfulness, and it is really up to you to take advan- tage of it and take all your docs tors' orders to "Best's." NY Ne § Keeley Jr, MOD, who | to the Military Hospitals Commission, in | given in the treatment rooms. i cupy the basement floor, are the pride of the hospital, for they are fitted up i | soothing effect upon the whole sys- TY, (making and repairing, wood-working, A metal working, ne ay pital. and enlarged by the addition of two i spacious wings and equipped as an {institution for the Afreatment of ner- {vous and mentally disabled patients. The fact that it was formerly an [asylum has led the ignorant section | of the public to have a much mistaken | impression of its present status In | Kingston the popular idea is that it { still is an asylum, and much needless {anxiety has been felt by relatives of | patients there owing to this idea. The | patients themselves also feel the in- | Justice of this~mpression, for many (of them, while enjoying a few days' {icave in the Limestone City, aré much {annoyed to hear the hospital spoken of as an asylum and the patients there {as lunatics. This is not correct | There are a few unfortunate men | whose menfal equipment has col- lapsed under the strain of french life, but only a few, The big majority of the patients are quite as sane as those who malign them, but are suffering from 4 disorganization of the nervous system. The writer, having been a patient there for the past four months, has on many occasions felt the sting of these innuendoes, and is hopeful that in future the outside public will have a clearer conception of the func- tions of the Cobourg institution. The main building, the oldest part of the hospital, is a magnificent edi- fice of three 'stories The ground floor is taken up.entirely by the ad- ministration offices The remaining [two floors are reserved entirely for men who are in various stages . of mental disability. A few are dan. gerous but the majority are quiet and harmless Most of them make good progress under the treatment given { them, and in time come into the cate. {gory of nervous cases. They are, for the most part, given private rooms, {so that they may have every possible {care and every possible opportunity to regain their impaired faculties. The other sections of the hospital are modern, up-to-date buildings, hav. {ing been erected within the last two {years. They are divided into eight | wards, each with beds for forty-two patients, One block of four wards is given over to sick, nervous cases, Some of these are men who have lost the power to use their limbs; one or two have lost their voices, All of them are men who have suffered from a serious nervous breakdown while an active service and they are deserv- ing of just as much sympathy as the man who has lost an arm or a leg, or_has been otherwise scarred or marred on the battlefield The re- maining block is occupied by men who are now convalescent. after hav- ing heen restored to health and strength by the splendid treatment These treatment rooms, which oce- with every appliance and "apparatus for the treatment of nerves known to medical science. The courses of treatment are divided roughly into two classed} hydrotherapy and elec- tro-therapy, or a combination of both, The continuous baths, in 'which the patients lie suspended in a Hammock while a constant flow of Warm water passes through, have a wonderfully tem. here is equipment for electric bath treatment; 'needle spray treat- ment; also 'electrical cabinets, vibra tors, High frequency batteries and: ap- paratus for massage. Many wonder- ful cdres have been effectgd in the in- Sstitugion. Men who have not walk- ed for months are set on their feet in a few weeks; men who had lost the power of speech have recovered their voices. and' others who entered the hospital in a trembling, nerve-shatter. ed condition, have in the space of three or four' months walked out strong and vigorous. In addition to the treatment given in the treatment parlors, an effort is made to afford some vocation for the as well as in America was the marri was #& smah group of guests, inel Churchill, British daughter-in-law of the bride. MR. & MRS. MONTAGU PORCH, THE LATTER FORMERLY LADY RANDOLPH CHURCHILL , LFAVING REGISTRY OFFICE AFTER THEIR MARRIAGE, SRS SFFiGIaL., Quite in keeping with the Informatiry of war-ume weddings in Engiod age of Lady Randolph Churchill to Mr. Montagu Porch, an official of the Nigerian governwent, in Londen on J 1. The Paddington Registry Office was the scene of the wedding, at which Minister of 'Munitions, i 3pencer and Winston Leonard Mrs. Churchill, son uding Mr. and Pron ai indefatigable in their work for the boys They appreciate in a way that few towns in Canada do the honor that has been conferred upon them by having these soldiers set in their midst> They their apprecia- tion by extending the hand of wel come to the patients by entertaining them in their 'homes and by devoting their automobiles for the pleasure of the boys. Would that a little of their spirit prevailed in Kingston. This article would not be complete without mention of the staff of spe- clalists who look after the patients. The commanding officer, Major Good- will, ig indeed the right man in the right- place His overseas experience has given him "an understanding of the type of patients in. his hospital that is absolutely necessary. Gap tain McGhee, a Kingston hoy, is his right hand man, and as a specialist on nervous disorders is in a class by him- self. There are two recent additions to the medical staff, men filled with the. enthusiasm of a new task. who will do well The sisters have a difs ficult part to play, but they do it with all the womanly synmipathy and under- standing that is found amongst their class . One of the main links on the staff is the sergeant in charge of the treatment parfors He a returned man 4 the Voeational Training Department qualified of 'this position His effi ciency is vouched far hy the splendid results he obtains. In conclusion, it might beisaid that the Ountario, Military Hospital, Cok bourg, is an institution which is jin the forefront in the work of fitting our war-stricken soldiers for usefal citizenship of our Paminion: It ranks as the foremost military hospital of its kind in Canada, and fulfils a work which is vital fo the welfare of our returning veterans and to- the whole of Canada. show = Capturing ¥ At Brighton, Eng., Bernard Oppen- haimgr is spending £3000.000 on a scheme for emploging: disabled sol- diers and sailors in the diamond cut ting industry. He is working in con- junction with' the Ministry of Pen- sions and is buflding a factory cap~ able of employing 1500 men. A minimum weekly wagé of £2 after six weasks' training is agreed upon. The project is an effort to capture. this trade from the Germans, who almost monopolized it before the war. Nine- tv-nine per.cent, of the diamonds the Germans were cuiting came from British possessions i . The 'Los Angéles Morning Tribune minds of the patients. *A special vo- cational building * has been erected where there are room$ devoted to va: rious kinds of occupational therapy, There is no real effort to teach the men new trades or professions. The object in view is to provide some di- version which Will ocepy the minds of the patients and. pfevent. as far as possible, any brooding on their own condition, or fits of depression. The vocational rooms are in charge.of a most efficient instructor, and some splendid work is turned out. The main rooms are those devered to shoe- a , sign writing, plaster castirig, and basket weaving. A number of the patients, re tting the open air life, have gone in for ptime in gardening cither on the big hospital garden or on private gardens provided for them. edd Attached to the bospital is a splen- did recreation room. consisting of a & Big stage. a "movie" appa: rats, two billiard tables, and re loor boyling alley, ter months, and indéed up to the first week of June. there were two concerts and dances held every week in this themselves and one given by the Sol diers' Comfort League. a club of Coo bourg ladies organized for the sole of providing recreation and "greater production." and spend their | ig dancing and concert hall i pes tr all, equip- | During the wine | Ball, one organized by the patients) has suspended publication on the grounds that it is § war "non-essen- tial," i i Fatigue is the result of poisons in the system, the waste matter resulling from the activities of life. The kidneys have failed to filter these poisons from the blood and you are fd, a Bul awaken the kidneys and liver by using Dr Chase's Kidnev-Liver Pills' and you soon feel fine. The fois are swept from (the system, the pains and aches are Fone and vou are | ready for work and for. rpose of pr comforts for the patients in the hes. The people of the town are i play, who! after special courses under TANG OVER HIGHWAYS WHAT IS HINTED AT AS PUR- POSE OF COMMISSION. May Assume Charge of Roads From Napanee to Brockvillé--Members of Association Dined by City Coun- cil, Prominent members of the Ontario Good Roads' Association are in the city to-day, inspecting a number of the roads throughout the city and county of Frontena¢, prior to leav- ing for Gananoque, where they will be tendered a banquet to-night by the Board of Trade of that town. The banquet at Gananoque to-night will be an important one, in that an announcement will be made regard- ing the taking over of certain roads in this district. : The members are giving out noth- ing fot publication regarding this until the banquet to-night, but it is undergtood that announcement will be made of the taking over by the Provincial Kighways Commission of the [York Road, from. Napanee to Kingkton, + [It Vis further expected that. the commission will lannounce that the road between Kingston and Brock- ville may also be taken over. This in highly desiraple, in view of the great traffic on this road. The deputation here from the Good Roads' Association consists of the following: C. R. Wheelpek, Or- angeville, president; J. 'W. Parsons, Jarvis, Ont., first vice-president; W. H. Pugsley, Richmond Hill, second vice-president; K. W. MeKay, St. Thomas, third vice-president; Hon. G. 8. Henry, Minister of Agriculture, in the Provincial Govérnment, secre- tary-treasurer; also Major T. L. Ken- nedy, Dixie; I. E."Allen, Belleville; F. A. Secal, Plantagent; W.H.Brown, Chesley; 8. L. Squire, Toronto; Dr. Campbell, Orangeville; Anthony Ran- kin, M/P.P, Frontenac county; W. D. Black, MJP.P. Lennox and =~ Addidg- ton, Hon. Finlay McDiarmid Minister of Highways, and Deputy Minister Me- | Lean also formed part of the dele- gation. IN MARINE CIRCLES. Movements of Vessels In and About ifigston Harbor, ! The steamer Oatlénd passed up from Montreal to Toronto with pack- age freight on Monday. The steamer City of Hamilton ar- 'rived from Torofito and Hamilton at 3 pom. and gleared for Montreal at 5 p.m. on Monday, > : The steamer Kingston arrived from Toronto at 440 am, and cleared for Prescott at 530 am. on Tuesday. 'he government boat Le Canada passed down on Tuesday morning. The steambarge Warren and barge 4 passed up on Tuesday. The tug Magnolia arrive from Motitreal with the barge Selkirk for Port Colborne; the tug Glyde is due to-day with twe light barges from Montreal, and cleared with two grain barges for Montreal. ieiibteriieimsndii TT Visited Sons of England. Supreme President D. J. Proctor of Torontd paid an ofticial visit on No. 33, Sons of Bugland. 1a his (England lodges of Canada, ont of a membership of 26,878 had given 6 718 men lor oversei ¢e, an killed in action or 'died #3 i A 119. > Se 3 ~ Prisoner of war--Capt: H. R. White, Ottawa, id Heth pe os 'Wounded--Lieut. 1. G. Shillinglow, Camphelliord: GA. Fleming, Kings- Lon, : 3 i No man ean be happy unless le tries to divide dt." © address he stated that the Sons efi A 88 fice, and up to June 30th, 1917, 638 had been | E of wounds | gretsens out of a membdrnly of Sweaters So much the vogue at necessity in her wardrobe. : . ; ~~ Our showing of brushed and shetland wool sweaters is the larg- 'est and most popular priced between Toronto and Montreal. you have the choice of an assortment of the season's smartest styles in a variety of the choicest colors. : SHETLAND WOOL SWEATERS FROM $5.95 UP. BRUSHED WOOL SWEATERS FROM $6.50 UP. present that 'every smart dresser finds it a In it We have a limited quaritify of our special pure wool plain knit pull-over sweaters at $5.95, on sale tomorrow. Steacy's - Limited Easiest Way To Remove Ugly Hairy Growths (Beauty Culture) Here is a method for removing hair or fuzz that is unfailing and is quite inexpensive: Mix a thick paste with some pewdered delatone and water and spread on hairy surface. After 2 or 3 minutes, rub it'off, wash the skin and every trace of hair has vanished. No harm or inconvenience results from this treatment, but be careful to get genuine delatone, [ows Gane HINCHINBROOKE. ' Picadilly, July 2.--Council Members all present. Minutes Bills and Moved, Pet- 11 of F. Snider be referred to M. CrolW& Carried. D. Leslie refunded $6. error in school) tax. Bill for damages from R. Heard lald over until next meeting. Allen Wagar assessed for one doz. and W. D. Black assessed for dogs. A. Barr voted $20.50 and T. G. Black $15 for sheep killed by dogs. No action taken on bills of W. T. Mitchell and R. Potter for damages. The sum of $17.60 grant- ed on east boundary, providing Bed- ford grant equal amount. Clerk in- structed to get legal advice re clos- ing of Rolly's Bridge. $10 granted on Allen Wagar road. Clerk voted $50 per year increase in salary. Ac- cou passed: For roads: M. Cronk, $167.95 J. N. Smith, $700; J. N. Smith, $100; assessor's salary, R. A. Hamilton, $70; error in school tax, D. Leslie, $1.22; sheep killed, A. Barr, $20; T. G. Black, $16; in- surance, $8.75; roads, O. R. Clow, $50. Council adjourned to meet at Parham, Auglist 26th, at ten o'clock: met. of ters-Wagar, t DID EMPEROR KARL PLAN FOR FLIGHT? This Is One of the Rumors Said 10 Bs Current in a London, July 9.--No light has yet been shed on the mysterious rumors concerning Emperor Charles and Empress Zita of Austria, which Dr. von Seydler, the Premier, recently found necessary to deny when his attention was called to them by a group of Austrian Députies. The Premier dengunced "these base and and absolutely senselgss tales," and declared that anyone taught spread- ing tha rumors would be punished severely. One report circulating among certain continental papers is that the royal pair is charged with re- vealing the plans of the recent bat- tle along the Plave to the Italians. Monday evening to Leicester Lodge; Another report is that the Emperor! and Emgress planned to fles from ustria. The origin of the rumors is not given, but a theory advanced is that the Austrian public is indignant at Emperor Charles' peace overtures through Prince Sixtus of Bourbon. which caused a sensation p 'matie circles of the Central Em- Bites, According to messages from Be ie SL gublie meeting a ~ the Christian ial Society last Sunday, which A tended by -Cardinml Pirfl, jut the. censir of this Fe UP-TO-DATE BEDROOM FURNITURE A large stock of up-to-date designs to choose from, in mahogany, walnut and ivory and grey enamels. ; We have a large stock of springs and mattresses on hand, very reasonably Pillows--a good quality \ to sell at $3.50, $4.50 and $5.50 per pair, . hd & LAR TR WL TTL LT 0] , Victrolas and Victor Records A large stock on hand. 3 T. F. HARRISON CO., LTD : Phone 90. ESI ELAL A Bargains in Tires We have secured a limited number of guaranteed tires, 30 x 3}, which we can sell at $15.00 for plain tread, and $18.50 for nonskid. Lemmon& Se 187 Princes Street. * i ff Spt fh tt CANADIAN | PAaCirFicCc oon V REACHED BY CANADIAN PAGIFIO = Summer Tourist Fares in Effect. i 3 l General Change of Time, July 14, 1918 |

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