THE DAILY BR Allan Lumber Co. N DEALERS IN DOUGLAS, FIR, SPRUCE "White Pine and Hemlock Flooring, Ceil- ing, Siding, Interior and Exterior Finish of all kinds, including Mouldings, Cedar Shingles, Vulcanite Shingles and Roll Roofing. J Ww Wg 0 ON JR ld BEAVER BRAND HARDWOOD FLOORING For prompt delivery, Telephone 1042. LUMBER YARDS and OFFICE: VICTORIA STREET, NEAR UNION ~W. P. Peters WHOLESALE Flour, Grain, Feed and Seed ----Agent for Lake of the Woods Milling Company. ----Sole Agent for Royal Purple Calf Meal and Package goods for Lennox, Addington, Leeds and F rontenac Counties, Purina Poultry Feed RETAIL STORE: 117 BROCK STREET PHONE 217, WHOLESALE STORE: FOOT OF PRINCESS STREET PHONE 51. » _AHISTORY OF TH | The following he written by Dr. R. W. ( | fc re is retirement so ston's leading su nt: Con'rast the advantages jcine and surgery which hos; now possess with those of a « jand a balf ago They knew ing of chloroform or ether; they rever heard of antiseptic surgery; they would expect everv wound w | heal by suppuration: they would ex- | press their approval of * | "true and laudable pus." If a wound healed by "primary unién," 'hey ex- | [hibited it as a most unusual occur- frence. They did not know typhus from typhoid, or scarlet fever from diphvherta; they never heard of aus- cultation or had seen a stethoscope | or a hypodermic syringe; they never | had counted the blood corpuscles nor {inepectad a skiagraph iparis of the body. They ri Jenner and his theory of va as a preventive of smallpox, and pub- lished most ludicrous carto | Within the last sixty y i* hole features of hospital work have ichanged. As an outcome of recent liculed ars the jit. which demands for it {thorough technique, sk ur and good hygienic surrou ings. ! In days gone by 'he work was con- {sidered complete when it furnished | food, shelter and medical attendance | | for the sick poor, supplying in clean- |1iness those comforts which their own {surroundings denied them. Thus it | Was that our hospitals 'were filled [sth the poor only\ Few beyond such occupied a bed in \the wards or ap- plied for medical tresa'ment in other stations of life nly darken- cd the threshold to perform some | | | kindly office, or to speak some word | [of comfort to its occupants Allow me, for a moment, {out the causes which | 'ransformations in | ment, equipment and technique, and {which bring to us today patients led to such {from every class and station in life | for treatment { When Sir Joseph Lister ann ounced | his gospel of Antisepsis there !upon the urgical world a { which shed it rays in ev jand a new era was given | fence, Notwithstanding the mighty up- | heaval in surgery made by antisepsis. (the progressive tendency of surgery [did not permit Listerism to rest upon (its achi 'vements. The advance move- new light to medical primarily manifested ip | riological Investigations, -- Retrospect, | At the close of the war 1812, a! number of immigrants, with very lit. | tle means of support, settled in King- |8ton and vicinity, {to an | them, outbreak of disease With the object of relleving | this distress and suffering, a few citi- | zens banded themselves together un- | {der the name of The Kingston Com- | passionate Society. | Was merged into the {lent Society, ange secured from towards the erection of an hospital During the rebellion of 1837-38, was used as a military hospital. | [1 fin {lature of Canada met | 1844, In that year, { Benevolent Association | Permission to occupy and | patients to the hospital. | Up to the year 1856, | | Was under the control of a board of was given | trustees, consisting of the mayor of | {the city of Kingston, judge of the | district court, warden of the Midland | District, sheriff of Midland District jand three aldermen. | The first meeting of the Board of | Covernors, under the new charter, | was held on November 6th, 18586, and | the following is a lst of | members at that time: | James Sampson, chairman: | Thamos Asken, treasurer," John Pa:- | on, honorary secretary, Hon.. John |A. Macdonald, John R Forsyth, { Thomas Kirkpatrick, John Watkins, | James Hopkirk, William | fames Harty. Kingston hospital memories resal] long years of devotion to the work by the chairman of the board. The hames of Drs. Sampson, Yates and Strange should live long in gratatul | ledgement most cheerfully 'wil be coupled the names of the late Thomas Kirkpatrick, QC., MP, and of his son, Hon. George A. Kirkpatrick, The Hospital Mound. The following description of "the emigrant fever" is fram the reminis- cences of Carl! Fechter, who wrote for the Whig in the eighties: "It was only a day or two ago that, in passing tha General Hospital, 'he eye of the visitor caught the mound which is tha only visible monument of the scourge of 1847. That was the year in which Ireland was afflict- ed. There was not food for the popu- lation, and between those who emi- grated and those who died, under cir- cumstances the most distressing, it is estimated that the Emerald Isle lost about 2,000,000 people. I: wasa't Home Rule the people cried for; it was "Bread, Bread." and there was Bo bread. There ternative but leave Ireland for for. eign shores or die of atarvation, and LIISH, noth- | healthy' and | of different | 3 Those | to point | hospital manage- | burst | © corner, | Their poverty led | among | It subsequently | Female Benevo- | the | | Legislature of Upper Canada funds | 1841, the building "Waa changed | | to some extent and the United Legis- | there until | the Female | send their | the hospital | the lite | G. Hinds, | remembrance, and with this 2cknow- | seemed to be no al- | SHig d with the fever period made Its perpetual funeral W&s a pest spot Death's sickle was so fatal i [eos that the Montreal clerg not attend to all the tunera:s and is tistance from ot places was sum uwoned, ' Bishop Phelan, the most 'urageous . clergy: an of | vent from here, but returned when this city became nes ¥ as unfortun !8te as the gi 3 "In June of 1847 the discaan reach- ied' Kmgston, It was brought hither {by thousands of Poor people, who, broken down by sickness and usage, did not know what was to be- come of them, and apparently did not They were Passed on to this place by the eastern au'horities who, in their mistaken policy of kindness to the emigrants, sent | stalking over the country, {ferers came up the river on all man- r of boats--some of them in steam- some of them in small sail-crafts, them in barges, huddled by Gross Isl t 7 ts e could jcare e of | together in the holds thereof like s0 | struck our | One summer | | many cattle. A panic | PE ople, and no wonder morning I walked down to John H i Grier's wharf, and | almost sickened ! Grier was a forward- I, and a barge he longing to him had | been used for the onveyance of some 1,800 ny from Montreal to i Kingston ey were dumped out on the wharf in a condition of wretched- ness that beggars description. of them were spot where abandoned. emi too weak to leave the they were Almost naked and near- Vv starved, they seemed to have lost all hope and to have given {Selves up to ihe ravages of disease Those who were. strong enough to { move about begged for food. ---- * Performed Great Service. "The ravages of death had to be | si@pped in some way; the progress of typhus fYevor had to pe arrested; thousands were destitute of all com- : out homes, to die upon the streets | --many did so--and yet most people { could not be Induced to face the dan- Ser of contact with the sick: There were a few brave men, however, and lamong them Thomas Kirkpatrick, the mayor; Robert Anglin, ¢ Juncillor; James Baker alderman; William Ford, jr., and James Meagher, ST. {and these and other dauntless clti- | 2én8 inspected the blaces of infection, | and performed tause their nam {fort a 3 to be held in ever- Mg remembranc e. > "The hospital ang old Molson ! brewery bullding were tilicd to over- | flowing, every part of them and the Board of Health, acting in conce-t with the government, hag several | temporary Structures provided. The chief erection Was on Emily stre 3, 90 feet long, 18 feet wide, and 20 feet .aigh, and five sheds were run { Up on the then commons, now pack, on King street, and even these were not sufficient to accommodate the ! hundreds who were seriously or fatally Prostrated by fever. Subse- quently sheds were erected on the Herchmer Property, and near to tae | college, but not until thes feeling against the continued yse of the other buildings had taken irrepress- ible form. At one time it Was vsug- gested that Garden Island, then government reserve, and occupied by, I think, a solitary residence and outhouses, should be taken for hos- pital purposes, but the plans to this | effect of the Board of Health sud- dernly collapsed. * The sight of men | and women and children staggering about the city, poorly clothed aud dying, I shall never forget. Ona | glimpse of misery like this and the ! lurid hideousness of Dante's Inferno | Seems less impossible! The doct rg | Were a philanthropic lot, They lab- | ored skilfully, ardently, untiringly, | and without hope of reward. Look at the list:--Sampson, Dormer, Me. | Lean, Meagher, Jr., Robison, Hallo- | well, Harvey and Stewart: all dead. {| They were as ministering angels of the stricken, and when human agen- ley could do no more, ang- death | came, the bodies were interred for a i time in the cemeteries at the head of { Bay and Ordnance streets, until the | issue of a prohibition, and then in | the spot adjacent to the General Hospital, made memorable by tha mound! I don't remember how many bodies went into this huge Brava, but they were numbered by hun- | dreds." | Many years later His Grace Arch- bishop Cleary desired to mark the mound where so many trymen were burfed, length Italian tive of the resurrection and amid | sacred ceremonial consecrated it as a lasting memorial to those who died under such sad circumstances. : ---- 2 ! Early Ward Services. . The main building contained four i principal wards, Strange, Yates, Sampson and Mott, together with a small ward--the Chown ward. Previous to the. installation of | the training school, three elderly wo- | men, wholly untrained, were in | charge of the wards. One had charge of a woman's ward and ma- ternity ward; one was in charge of a male ward, with a male assistant, { aad one was in charge of the top flat with two wards--male and female. ; The male patients were for the most part "weary willies" a "winter a comfortable homeo erected a full . KINGSTO ' ents his time, | il- | pestilenca | The but- | Many | virtually them- | They could | a service which should"! of his coun- | Marble statue, figura- | SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1922. == mt AL, mitted and discharged the patients, | agement Organized to make an effort kept the cash, if it had any; discip-!to raise money by a 'Made in Canada lined the house-surgeons and stud- | Fair.' Booths under the manage- The students were not permit- | ment and direction of bands of lad- lies were erected in the armouries, contributions were solicited from manufacturers outside and {aside Kingston. In almost every case. they were most generously responded to In these booths, the ladies expo for sale their various wares estate in lots were offered an by sold. From the country s came potatoes, all sorts of vegetavles, | butter, eggs, cord-wood and ail sorts jof material. It certainly produced a | very motley appearance { All were disposed of ted to enter the wards except by his permission. and practically were looked upon by him as interiopers or bandits, often shutting the door in their faces, or even locking the door jor putting the chain on against | their entrance. The medical staff, four in num- ber, appointed by the governors, at- tended from 11 to.12 a.m. for three months at a time. During the whole summer in 1871, theré were performed but three ma- jor operations, and the Watkins | sheltered but two private patients. allotted time By | During the winter session surgi- yond the bounds of expectatioh cal operations were occasionally per- | Empire Wing:At the nual formed, but where they occurred it | meeting in 1911, a committee was was always proclaimed by the stud- | appointed te ke some effort to in- j ent, as a holiday for the rest of the [clease the acoomny gation of the day, and the sounds of 'slope' was | Hospital], particularly private rooms. heard on all sides. 1A systematic canvas was nade and | several substantial sul iptions Hospital Expansion. | were offered. The city corporation In 1862, through the generosity [granted $5,000 dollars and | minor of Mr. Watkins, who for a number of | contributions were added. : | years was a life governor of the hos- | In 1912, the Women's Aid Society, pital, the Watkins wing was erected | that energetic organization, never ap- for the treatment of general dis-!eealed to in vain, was waited upon ease. In 18986 this part of the bu!lld- jand at once formed themselves into ing was almost completely destroy- a loyal band of workers and decided ed by fire The following year it|to hold a "Festival of Empire." It was rebuilt and refurnished by sub- Was organized and carried out to a | scriptions from citizens and other [successful termination, the proceeds friends of the hospital. For tho netted $12,000. As a result a mag- name of St. Andrew's children's [nificient stone structure was erected | ward, the children of St. Andrew's {BL & cost of over $50,000 with every church agreed to equip and maintain | Somtont and with every modern {m- iit in every detail. provement including baths and open Nickle wing- -The late William 8rates, and was named 'The Empire Nickle bequeathud the sum of $10,- | Wing' so called by the Women's Ald 000 for charitable purposes and a Society, who contributed 60 largely magnificent stone structure was er-|to the success of the enterprise. | ected for infectious diseases. Later Too much credit cannot be given {it was remodelled which made the |to-the noble band of workers and eu- tment of infectious diseases thuslasts who came forward at the res fent and more efficacious |' 'Made in Canada Fair" from Napanee Tighe is oh) - from the spread of (lo assist. They brought various con- 25 8 prevoniaiive {tributions erected a booth, leaving the manificent | their homes for the full week, and | bequest of the late Michael Doran, adding much to the success of the the governors were able to add the | fair. Napanee has always beeri most Doran building, enabling them to | generous In a great many ways, it ! furnish a maternity department and | furnished in every detail and main- for diseases peculiar to women, tained a room in M wat Hospital. A ous : rate from the other brass plate on the door still marks eat Fels PaaS i within its its generosity. A generous contribu- {¥ i c op- | tion was given for an up-to-date walls a fully equipped antiseptic op {toa Te or odste erating room, council has annually contributed to | the general fund. | ---- districts Its success contagious diseases. Doran wing--By Training School. In the eighties, a member of the| surgical staff visited some of the Organic Union. hospitals in New York and was 5, Previous to 1918, apipintments to impressed by the results obtained bY | the hospital staff were made by a {properly trained nurses that he urg- | edical board, subject to the ap- ed on the governors the necess|ty ti proval of the Board of Governors. establishing a training school. One In that year, an agreement was graduate was taken on, and in a few jratified between Queen's | niversity months two more were accepted, thus |, 4 the hospital, having some de- {was established the nucleus of the | ee of permanency and in conform- ' training school which has grown lity with the requirements demanded 'such enormous proportions, number- | by the American Council of Surgene, itg over eighty nurses in training. {so as tb measure up to what -con- The nurses were first housed in the | titutes a 'standard hospital.' It was large room over the Watkins an af | greed that apihintments to the visit ter the fire were placed in a few priv-| itg staff of the hospital will in the late rooms in the Nckle building. It future be made by the Board of |Was found that the accommodation Governors on the recommendation of was unsatisfactory for the Increasing | the board of trustees of the univer- number of nurses and it was decided {sity. All appointments termin- to erect a separate building Accom- ale annually, subject to re-appoint- |modating thirty-five nurses. Later It! ment. No remuneration will be ex- {Was found necessary to add another(; ... to the members of the visit- {large building in the very near neigh- ling state, borhood where a large number are! 'public wand patients will be < located . | tered under the care of the heads Extra-mural nurses: When the | jepartments and available for med- school had been properly established, || clinics, and medical students will two regular nurses were named for be permitted th visit the wards, outside nursing. They were to bel nie and operating rooms for the ready to answer outside calls for re- purpose of receiving instruction. lief, advice and professional care in Members of the medical profession of places where it was most needed, and the city of Kingston, who are not on teaching the best treatment on them- | the staff have the privilege of attend- selves and their children. ing patlents in private or semi-pri- General operating room: One of | cate rooms. the most pressing needs was an OP"| Medical services will be organized, lerating room well * equipped, good |, as to Include both indoor and out- | ventilation, suitable for surgical as | ioor patients. Each service in med- |es, and also for demonstrations in the | icine, surgery, obstetrics, eye, ear presence of the student classes. This nose and throat, patholgy and an- {Was built and donated by the late Dr. | aesthetics will be undertaken with K. N. Fenwick, who died before it such assistance as may be necessary. was completed, a martyr to septi- Reconstruction: In 1913 plana cemia. Another operating room nam- were submitted bw specialists in hos- ed 'The Li>uise' so called after a de: ital constructibn, but on account of [sensed Qaughisr of a. well RnoWhlipe Lier 'cont of labor and building hospital surgeon. It is devoted to riaterials, they were deferred for the Special cases where special privacy lye peiny' ls maintained. It is most suitable to In 1921 the 'service bujping' a young children of nervous tempera- handsome stone structure, 'was com- {ment and for emergency cases. The |, anced and will be ready for occup- {walls and cefling are plastered with ancy at an early date. It is intended {a special kind of cement which rend- |g kitchens, pantries znd thelr {ers them impenetrable to infection, | equipment, and a cold storage and All arrangements and equipmen: | refrigerator system. The upper storey [eis 23M lor by the Women's Aldlyii'pe ufiized for qloresy: 10 a { Society, |staff. An extension has been add {tb the Empire wing, fire proof, and providing twenty-six additional prl- ---- Pubereuluntt, vate rooms The rly treatment of tuber-/ + : : -- culosis attdacted the attention of the ' Tue Juolation Sosphal, the 1 aly i Governors. On | Tor which 2d by Forgndinplpnid Hospital were or-| of Kingston, is' progressing rapidly. oct vom or three 'shacks' for cola |The corner stone for which waa laid {in October 1922. |and fresh air treatment. They were i : : {fed and otherwise ministered to by | Laundry: In line th gemiig {special trained nurses. - This treas| 10m, 3 Sew : Ty ia in prioce | cess they : : [Sure free! Tues 2 he The university and hosoital com- i . workers was organized Into a joint | bined for the erection of a power k ny, named the Kingston I'OUSe on the water's edge. furnishing oe mY They bought a| Not Water and steam for the hospitals a fece of property So thirty University buildings. and for, other [ae ly Ronit, with pine and T®auirements. It is most modern in } le | every rm. I yaac ss Sud Jang dutisnle; Plans and avecifications are being } ' red for the new clinic building. Mowat Medorial Hospital. The hos- PTeva [pital patients were transterred to| With operating rooms and other { that localfty and lodged in very com- | "00mg for special clinical demonstra- {tortable buildings, with wide spac-:ans on the tap floor, {lous verandas and open fire places. -- {Later it was taken over and enorm- | It would surprise some of these as many as could get passage by out- | sojourners," going vessels boarded them, fiying | free from cold and with good ROur- ously expanded by the Dominion | jealous wives to learn there {sn"t an- Best Cigar Value in Canada . GENERAL CIGAR COM PANY LimiTeo CONTROLLED AND OPERATED BY IMPERIAL TOBACCO CO. OF CANADA LiMiTED from present dangers to others they knew nct of. Thousands succumbed at sea; thousands lingered in lite un- til they reached a smupposed--o-be ndly colony, only to perish there of disease and exhaustion. It was clean and heulthy | fled superintendent Talk uf | Montreal during the smalpox epi- 1 ed by a steward. ishing food drove them in. All who | had varicose veins and hoboes wera eligible for admission. Up to the.time and until a quaii- Was appointed, | Was practically govers. | In addition te other duties he kept the regisfor, ad- the hospital - 1 | Wi Governnrent and controlled and car-iother woman in tho whole, wide ried on as a tuberculosis hospital world who would take their fool hus~ during the continuance of the Great bands on a bet. and it is stil] being maintained jit takes more than a pretty face as under the charge of a special- | to make a perfect lady, but any tet. : , | homdly girl can tell you men would Made in Canada Fair: The Ladies' | rather have a pretty face than a per" Ald Society and committee of man- | fert lady. > - -