Sean APM ES AAR RnR nas aE t he te i ARERR AES -- tcc Mite 2 eto Aaa Ne ae THE STRATFORD MIRROR Friday, November 22, 1946. Hospital Forced ToSay"No" To 45 Sick Peopl <a senate Hospital Cannot Long Keep Up Pace | Vote YES on the Hospital By-Law Not only today--but yesterday, today and every day so far this year--the Stratford General Hospital has been forced to refuse admittance to an average of 45 people seeking hospital treatment. On a few days the number on the waiting list has exceeded 70. In spite of the expanding waiting list, more people are receiving treatment in the Stratford Hospital than ever before. Last year the number of patients admitted reached a new high mark, BUT -- In the first ten months of this year the Hospital treated 690 MORE PATIENTS than it served in the first ten months of last year. The extent to which the Hospital has met the sharply rising demand for hospital service is little short of miraculous. The Hospital's achievement was not believed possible a year ago. But -- THERE IS A LIMIT. The staff of every department of the Hospital is working under unrelenting pressure. : Wards are overcrowded. Two beds stand where only one was meant to be. Often beds are set up in corridors. Under these trying conditions the great work of caring for the sick goes on at the Hospital 24 hours a day -- every day. It is a hard pace--and it can not long continue. When all this has been said, the fact remains that ONLY PART OF THE JOB IS BEING DONE. Today 45 people sought hospital treatment and could not get it. Only Answer Is A New Hospital The only satisfactory answer to the problem is the erection of a new hospital. A by-law providing for the construction of a new General Hospital will be presented to the taxpayers of Stratford on December 9. The building en- visioned will make it possible to provide for many years to come the highest standard of hospital service for all the people of Stratford, Perth County and other areas now served by the Stratford General Hospital. This appeal is published by The Stratford General Hospital . Trust e Each Day a Orne - pea Se BY Beers oem com " - mere "-- _ Seach = Bove ee ec SS co Ye Agente Friday, November 22, 1946. THE STRATFORD MIRROR Page 5 AS SER IY (Continued from page one.) have been weighed on the balance and found wanting." I thought to myself, "that really means 'short- weight'." Babylon fell to the rough, more primitive people from the east, the preacher said, because it went rotten from the inside. (He might have said that every great empire, or sys- tem, that ever fell, did so for the same reason.) He said that while he liked a drink himself, now and then, that everybody was drinking too much -- that there were homes of which everybody knew which were being ruined by alcohol. He said it was a disgrace to America that you got hard liquor almost literally shoved at you from every hot dog stand along the roadside. He said that the United States had gone through an awful period of demoralization un- der prohibition -- but that she was heading for a far worse collapse now. : He was, I thought, talking a bit in parables. I got the idea that while he was pinning what he was saying on the evils of too much drinking, he was really talking about the whole social set-up in the U.S. : * * * HOW WILL THE U. S. COME through the storms and stresses that anybody ought to be able to see coming in that country? I do not know. But I think I know a bit more about the answer after visiting that Huguenot Church than I would have had I stayed in New York. For here, I thought to myself, is 4 bit of the real America--from the stone tablet telling of the founding}, of the church in 1662 to the 30 stars on the service flag which stood be- side the Stars and Stripes in the corner. IRONIC QUEST FOR YOUTH Most of those who profess to have found the secret of longevity have died before their time, reports Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Jour- nal of the American Medical Associ- ation. He reviews the alleged dis- coverers of the formula of long life in The American Weekly with this Sunday's issue of The Detroit Sun- day Times. "Dear teacher, Please don't give Johnny any more of those sums about whiskey at three shillings a bottle. It keeps his father awake..." ONTARIO STREET BAPTIST CHURCH BROTHERHOOD LAYMEN' Friday, November 29 - 7.45 p.m. AT Ontario St. Baptist Church , LAY PREACHERS -- SPECIAL MUSIC FEATURING BRASS TRIO -- MOTION PICTURES -- ILLUSTRATED HYMNS Theme: "Paul's Life" KEEP THIS NIGHT OPEN! R. W. HARDWICK, President. C. R. 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