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ebrated in Ontario as National Hospital Day. It commemorates the birthday of Florence Nightingale, the recognized founder of modern hospital practices. She and her students established basic principle under which hospitals operate today. Below are a few interesting facts about the functions of Canadian hos- pitals from the early beginning in 1639 and up to the present day. *¥ kX ¥ ok 0% One hundred years ago, 167 doctors gathered in Quebec City and organized the Canadian Medical Association Dr. (later Sir) Charles Tupper -- one of the fathers of Confederation and a Prime Minister -- was elected the Can- adian Medical Association's first pres. * * * * * "Did you know that "Canada had the first hospital in North America? That's right! In 1639, three Sisters of Saint Augustine from Dieppe, France estab- 'making it the first 1 hospital on the North American Continent. *¥ kk x J Today, 99.8 per cent of all Canadians Canadians are the most heavily in- be expected they would understand the principle of insurance, Without getting into the esoteric jargon of the expert this would seem to be that protection can be bought for reasonably low prem- iums because only a few fortunate people have to collect. Not everyone's house burns down. We an SRC Rg nr SIR WP Gn gl Pl man But Canadians seem to forget all about this when the government enters the picture with its universal insurance against unemployment or insurance against the painful necessity of going into hospital." lished the Hotel Dieu at Quebec City, sured people in the world and it could ) May 12, Hospital Day Friday, May 12, is traditionally cel- . are covered by federal-provincial hos- pital Insurance. r * # * * % Canada's first lay nurse, Jeanne Mance opened the doors of the Hotel Dieu de Saint Joseph to the sick in the year 1644. * %* % %x ¥ Hospitals all over North America are reporting tremendous pressure on their emergency departments. In Ontario alone, 503,000 patients were handled by hospital emergency departments last year, compared with only 208,000 in the year 1959. * * * * * There has been 140 per cent increase in the number of patients going to hospital emergency departments in Ontario during the past six years. Each _year. the increase.runs.from..10.to. 20.. per cent. * * * * * ~ There are more men in nursing to- day than ever before, Since 1963 there ----has-been-a-40-per cent increase in the number of men enrolled in nursing courses. A total of 44 nursing schools offer programs for men interested in nursing as a career. They Won't Go Home _ well and not have to go to pospital, al- though he is relieved to know that his bill will be paid if he does go. But some people seem to think that since they have paid the premiums they should stay in hospital as long as they wish. The hospitals of one Canadian prov- ince are said to keep their patients in : hospital for longer periods of time than any other hospitals in the world. This would be a wonderful record if they were hotels. : If citizens cannot be convinced that hospital beds in treatment hospitals are for sick people and for sick people only, not all the goodwill in the world will The homeowner buys fire insurance. He hopes his house will not burn down but expects that the insurance company will send a cheque if it does, The employee has deducted from his pay a share of unemployment insurance. He should hope that he will not lose his job and have to collect. But otherwise intelligent people seem to translate in- surance into savings and seem to think they should get their money back in some way. The citizen who pays his hospital in- surance should hope that he will remain AA A A A LL LS ENR ARAB ARARRRRRABRRS 4 PORT PERRY STAR CO., LIMITED Serving Port Perry, Brooklin and Surrounding Areas WM. T. HARRISON, Editor P. HVIDSTEN, Publisher Member of the Canadian Weekly crime IN QO WB PAP OF A BBO, eommmoee ' Member of the Ontario Weekly / Newspaper Assoc. , Published every Thursday by The Port Perry Star Co. Ltd., Port Perry, Ontario. ' Authorized as second class mail by the Post ' / ' / / / / ~f-- /' / / / / / / / ' / ' / / / / / / / / / / / / ' 1 Office Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash. Subscription Rates, In Canada $3.00 per yr., Flsewhere, $4.50 per yr. Single Copy 10ec. A AAA A A AA A AAA RA AAA ARR AR RAR AARARAD AM ARAM RRR RRRRw PCRS sasasaanaw ssssssssseaet [} i i enable politicians to keep down rates and taxes. Even if they try. -- "The Printed World" MODERN PONCE DE LEON Did you read in the papers recently about some drug, developed by a Rumanian lady doctor, which keeps you young? Apparently - it works wonders. Old Konrad Adenauer, who packed it in not long ago, well into his nine- 50 YEARS AGO Wednesday, May 9th, 1917 At the regular meeting of Reach Council a by-law was put through to change the Statute Labor from the for- mer price $1.00 to $1.50 per day. Mr. H. W. Linke has bought the residence of Mr. Henry Doubt, on- Bigelow St. Mr Doubt is moving to Oshawa. -- Mr. Morley Campbell has "sold the Charles Harper farm Scugog to Mr. Clarence Hood. Mr. Charles Gibbard Ven- ning of Cartwright who was reported missing is now a prisoner in Lemberg. The Presbyterian Church, Blackstock could not hold all the people who wished to at- tend the Memorial Service _service. New | SITTING ; IE [ais 25 YEARS AGO May 14th, 1942 Congratulationes to 'Messrs.- a Campbell MacMaster and William Cawker for success: - fully passing their examina- tions at the Ontario Veterin- ary College at Guelph. Mr. Holmes has retired from the Toronto Police Force after forty years of They will be living in Port Perry. Rev. F. G. Joblin has been elected "as. chairman of the Oshawa Presbytery. Mr. Harold Purcell of Re- gina, Sask. spending a few "days with his cousin, Mrs. E. Holtby, Manchester. Officers elected for the Port Perry Yacht Club for ERS Sn Rs 10 YEARS AGO May 9th, 1957 Teen Town dances will be held at the Port Perry Public School on Friday nights dur- ing the summer. Mrs. John Hamilton and Mrs. Velva Bailey, Black: stock attended the annual Anglican W. A. Convention held in Toronto. Honeydale Branch of the Women's Institute will dedi- cate a maple tree to com- memorate the 60th anniver- sary of the founding of the institute. The ceremony will be held at Lakeside Park. Mrs. M. B. Dymond enter- tained the members of the Scugog Chapter of the I.LO.D.E. at a buffet luncheon » v held in honour of soldiers who have fallen. Dr. J. B. Lundy is attend- ing the Ontario Dental Con- vention in Toronto. as a bonus, a culture vulture, a social butter-. fly, a dedicated community worker, a fine ing. hushand and father, and a general handyman, that I rapidly become a dam' old grump, as my daughter succinctly puts it. the coming year are: Com- modore George Emmerson, Vice Commodore Bev. Kent and Sec.-Treas. Dorothy Bal four. chair, prior to the May meeting. Port Perry Scout Troop were guests of the Toronto Maple Leaf Ball Club at a ball game in Toronto. Thursday night, Library Board Meet: Friday afternoon, presented prizes to winners in speaking contest. school band concert, with daughter playing drums and another hard chair. Friday night, Pain in rear --that-I'm--off -to- Rumania this summer. It's 'appalling what they expect us old guys to do ties, was a regular customer. Wish I could get my hands on some of that stuff. In fact, don't be surprised if you learn Monday, Last week was a doozer, and not untypical. rush home, write column, then straight off to music festival. Sat on hard chair from 7.30 to 11.30 p.m., when daughter 'these days. When I was 30, I knew 1 couldn't keep up the pace much longer, and looked forward to life beginning at 40. When I hit 40, 1 found myself running faster than ever, still in circles. Now I'm wondering whether they let you out of the rat race at 50, or whether you just keep going until you run all those other rats into the ground or fall flat on your foolish face. Dead. Trouble is, there are always new young rats joining the marathon, which makes it rough n_us mature rats, even though we've got our second wind. It's not the regular work week that gets me. No. | come from hard-working peasant, puri: tan stock, and know that you have to work hard to get rich and/or to heaven. It's the other week piled on top of it that makes me come out an 80-hour loser, red-oyed, surly, frazzled and fractious. It's when they expect me to be, in 'addition, HF mark in the festival, but had sore bum all next day. : Tuesday, taught my own classes aid gave guest lecture. sion of Normandy in history, since I was the only available living relic of the battle, was asked to tell them some highlights. Like how our air force bombed our troops at Caen. Like how my squadron dive-bombed a Ger- man bridge three days in a row, 60 tons of hombs, three aircraft lost, and never knocked a chip of concrete off the thing, though we did kill a lot of fish in the river below. "This is known as living history and T had to do an encore the next day with another grade. Apack of "old sweat" lies, but they ate it up. It wasn't in the book. After school, acted as judge in speaking contest. Wednesday night, final concert of music festival winners. Kim picked up an armful of silver cups, which helped ease an: played. Worth it, when she took highest Grade 10° is "doing" theinva- other raw rump from three hours on wooden slightly eased by post-concert party which produced pain in head. Saturday, Open House at school. English attention. Ketchup on floor indicated last scene of Hamlet, which we did in the fall, and small pile of ashes on floor indicated re- mains of Saint Joan, which we finished last week. Visitors deeply impressed with new realism in teaching of English. Saturday night, fought all evening with wife and daughter. Latter wanted to go to teen dance, despite fact she had trouble staying awake because of afternoon and evening re- hearsals all week. To every one of which I drove her and picked her up. Spent all day Sunday looking for receipts to send with 'income tax return, one week late, Here it is Monday and column night again. And the lawn isn't raked. And tomorrow night I have to play for the Russian Billiard Cham- pionship of the curling club, which closed three weeks ago. And hours to go before I sleep. And hours to go before I sleep. Please pass the Ru- manian Gerovital or whatever. _ department display in my room drew much ¥ q _=Toronto Telegram News Service...