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There must have been some other location within the Municipal Building that would house one table, one chair, one phone, one typewriter. «_ Somewhere at 2700 Eglinton Avenue West there must have been a spot where the reporters could all gather to fight over the one table, one chair, one phone and one typewriter. Maybe the press crew could have sat around fie mayor and controllers on the dais while the dermen sat with their voters in the audience, How can the press dictate to council? And why does council bow to their demands? Is getting the names of council members in the papers getting to be of more importance than getting things done? It seems that reporters are more important than aldermen these days. Aldermen, too, need somewhere to work, some place to make phone calls from, some other retreat from council if only to get away from the circus for a short break. While the press facilities at the Borough of York have ever been lacking, why is it that a recent complaint by one of the newspapers â€" who rarely attend or report on the meeting of council â€" got such immediate action? And, why the aldermen‘s lounge? The installation of a proper working press table in council chambers is a welcome one and is long overdue. The press has been moved around from makeshift arrangements that inâ€" cluded beat up old tables to the most recent inâ€" novation â€" school type chairs that were difficult enough to sit in, or at, let alone try to work in, or But to take away the aldermen‘s lounge for the press crews to sit around and make telephone calls or sit at the one and only typewriter to bang out copy from council meetings is just not fair to our elected officials. What‘s an _â€" alderman ? It makes one wonder. What is more important, the elected aldermen of York or the press corps who sometimes cover the meetings of council? Established 1890. incorporating the Weston Times and County of York Herald, the Times and Guide, and Weston Timesâ€"Advertiser, and the Weston Times. V.J. MacMillan, President and Publisher Molly Fenton, General Manager Bill Boiley, Editor Telephone 241â€"521 1 Second Class Maii Registration Number 1588 Subscription Rotes Mome Delivery $5.00 Per Year. Mailed Deliveries $7.00 Per Year in Advance in Conado. Other Countries $9.00 Road, Weston, each Thursday by In face of the provincial nursing home beds. That‘s 1965. Appro .'-_ ‘ *3 baas ‘: ib" have been hrdhl: :mh‘. lfi": repudiation approval arguing was frozen 5 wald: the Timgs and Gordg: ona werica | for the longâ€"planned exâ€" years. . and mnffomen in i9. The and the Weston Times. tensions of Northwestern _ But it is one hz-: extension had been placed in littan nc Rubdiad and Humber Memorial reshape policy for the the provincial expenditure ,u.;.'.m"“d' Managet Hospitals, one finds oneself It is quite another thing to estimates for next year. Now Bill Boiley, Editor reaching for adjectives to Telephone 241â€"521 1 d""umm' m M""“ = mm mm mm mmmmmme :mswu.:qnmumuumaw 1see M;O,Wâ€"Mlll Dono.dl C. MocDonald ie ce epee ie hh brhrm P ® * [ . comp t_:mumhd.:t Ptth QUEEN‘S PARK REPORT seem t the best one of all is the good. MPP for York South ltb ree br> binth scb eiatatsiiet Birbamiat Aibhiodbadb sesmmassnnsodecssccrceis â€" W. Martin, Deputy Minister At a Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario; Dr. Glen Sawyer, General Secretary, Ontario Medical Association, and Mr. R. Alan Hay, Executive 1972 hospital convention theme There is so much that one would like to say on this situation that it is difficult to know where to begin. Let me content myself with two or three basic observations. of the highâ€"cost general hospital beds with conâ€" valescent hospital and Governments are quite rightly preoccupied today with the skyâ€"rocketting of health care costs. Therefore, no one disputes a policy change which envisages, for the future, a better balance Minister of Health is out of town. When he returns (September 25), the matter will be reviewed, perhaps at a cabinet committee level. The best that I can report at the moment is that the The proposal simply doesn‘t make sense. In fact, it is so nonsensical as to be mindâ€" May common sense prevail Coâ€"ordinated health care â€" Some Aspects of a Community â€" Hospital‘s Approach; Philip Rickard, administrator, Belleville General Hospital â€" _A separate Self Care Unit; Dr. R.M. King, physician in charge, Home Care and Medical _ Rehabilitation, Ministry of Health â€" Coâ€" ordinating Home Care, and Gary Chatfield, program coâ€" ordinator, Extended Health Care Program, Ministry of Healthâ€"Extended Care Insuranceâ€"A _ Government Aid to Coâ€"ordination. At a joint session for be Kenneth Williamson, consultant and former director of the Washington office of the American Hospital Association. Mr. Williamson‘s topic is Good Health Care Legislation and The Monday afternoon general session focuses on the convention theme â€" Coâ€" ordination of Care, five approaches to moving patients out cof active treatment facilities. The five speakers and their topics are: Dr. R. Bayne, assessment and placement service, division of the Hamilton District Health Council â€" In Hamilton, a Group _ Approach, Mrs. Dorothy Burnett, director of Nursing, Collingwood General and Marine Hospital of Health, also October 24. _ Special guest speaker will the Role of a Hospital Association. Official opening luncheon speaker Monday, October 23 is Dr. J. Fraser Mustard, dean, faculty of medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton. I repeat: the absurdity of the situation is mindâ€" boggling. The case of Humber _ Memorial _ is roughly equivalent. Planâ€" volunteers have played their part, the community has subscribed nearly $3,000,000 â€" suddenly the project is to be vetoed. been completed by now, except that all hospital projects were frozen in the retrenchment buget of 1969. The freeze came off in the fall of 1971 and now, when tenders were about to be called, hundreds of staff and move in the late sixties and the extension would have 1964. The project was given approval in principle in 1965. scuttle projects which have been worked upon for literally eight years. thwestern, planning began in In the case of Norâ€" medical rehabilitation chronic care _ service, Ministry of Health,, will an OHA convention, will hear Dr. Gordon Cameron, assistant professor _ of Surgery, McMaster University Medical Centre discuss medical, staff apâ€" pointments. The OHA‘s _ Nursing session will consist of a panel discussion on new legislation â€" how will it affect nursing? Participants are: Milton Orris coâ€"ordinator, curriculum and student services, Ontario Ministry of Colleges and Universities; Miss Joan MacDonald, director, college of Nurses of Ontario; Dr. Josephine Flaherty, president, registered _ Nurses‘ Association of Ontario, and Miss Jean S. Dalziel, nursing practice standards conâ€" sultant, College of Nurses of Ontario. Directors of nursing meeting in a later session will hear a talk by Miss Angela Armitt, dean, exâ€" tension _ department, University of Western Ontario. Her topic stress â€" there is a lighter side. Dr. Barbara Blake, Chief, Chiefs of staff, meeting together for the first time at medical staff and trustees October 24, Dr. J.C.C. Dawson, Registrar of the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, will discuss hospital visits, appointment procedures and privilege changes. Dr. Dawson‘s remarks will include comâ€" ments on the recent series of visits made by the college to some Ontario hospitals. the _ Family _ Service Association at 1651 Keele Street, along with a growing number of citizens, are engaged in the development of a community service centre which will coordinate That‘s the whole thrust of government policy now; or at least, we are told so. Get health care as much as possible out of the traditional institutions and into the community. The York Mental Health Council, which I happen to chair, and health care delivery. widely, to the government‘s own efforts to get greater community involvement in My second comment is that if this «proposed repudiation stands, it is going to deal a disastrous all ‘that effort is threatened with repudiation and veto. PICKLE SEASgON ‘72 in 1965. Approval i in 1968. The The last general session will be an open discussion between government and hospital representatives on legislation â€" Coâ€"ordinated and uncoâ€"ordinated. This is an opportunity for delegates to examine the effects and practical application of selected major pieces of legislation. Further details on the format of this imâ€" portant session will be anâ€" nounced before the conâ€" vention. Another first for the convention is the addition of sessions for two groups. Meeting for the first time at the convention will be the speech pathologists and audiologists and hospital ambulance services. tended by more than 8,000 people last year including trustees, administrators, doctors, nurses, technologists and other ancillary health care perâ€" sonnel, making it Canada‘s largest hospital convention. pected to attend this year The Wednesday morning general session will consist of five mini papers on the following topics; the crisis intervention unit, misutilization, hospitalâ€"wide inservice education, children‘s diabetic day care program and a coâ€"ordinated community _ psychiatric program. speak on the Ontario Extended Health Care Program in rural comâ€" munities at the small hospital forum, Wednesday, October 25. The convention was atâ€" The new legislation stipulated that compensation be paid as long as required Anyone suffering a work injury was enâ€" titled to compensation as a matter of right, regardless of negligence on anyone‘s part. A sharp departure from not having to prove negligence on the part of the employer, but also to get around the "assumption of risk" tactic under which some employers had formerly argued that employees in certain categories sKould ‘have been aware of and accepted the possibility of injury because of the nature of their work. There was to be no further recourse to the courts for damages. With compensation guaranteed, as a matter of right, the need for costly, to both employee and employer, and often bitter, long drawn out litigation was eliminated. Among the 1914 Act‘s innovative provisions: Payment of compensation was guaranâ€" teed through establishment of a special fund raised by levies on the province‘s emâ€" ployers. It was no longer a question of whether management felt inclined to compensate an injured worker or could afford to do so. The cost of providing compensation was to be shared by all emâ€" ployers and incorporated as a cost of being in business in Ontario, Prior to that time, the victim of a job injury was in large measure dependent on the bengevolence of his employer. Whether the company would cover the cost of medical treatment and continue some level of income during convalescnece, and for how long, was a unilateral, management decision. The injured worker could, of course, in instances where management declined any form of assistance, resort to the courts. Such actions, ‘however, involved fixing liability for the accident on the company. Doing so was often a drawn out, costly process for both workman and employer â€" with the latter obviously in a much better position to use the court appeal system to advantage. Based on recommendations following a threeâ€"year study of compensation system throughout the world provincial Chief Justice, Sir William Meredith, the Ontario Workmen‘s Compensation Act of 1914 was advanced model legislation for its time. The prime areas of departure in the then new Ontario system may appear remarkably unspectacular when compared to the acâ€" cepted standards of today. But in the light of the haphazard nonâ€"system of benovolence and legal resourse which it replaced, Onâ€" tario‘s Workmen‘s Compensation Act was a giant step forward. This is the first in a series dealing with various aspects of Workmen‘s Compensation in Ontario. Reader questions and comments are invited.) Just over 58 years ago, in May 1914, Onâ€" _ with no lime limit during which ben tario lawmakers passed legislation which _ would be available. Even the most advar became effective on January 1, 1915, emâ€" systems of 1914 stipulated maximum pe bodying an approach based on an entirely _ of time during which assistance would new set of principles in providing the provided, regardless of the in jured work province‘s workers with protection against _ condition. often disastrous results of being injured in In the more than half a century since the course of their work. William Meredith established maior Workmen‘s compensation How it began "Get his full entitlement.‘‘ When you say it quickly it sounds a bit cold and detached. One gets the impression . of someone making a few mathematical calculations, calling for a series of cheques and then closing out a file. This may be close to reality in the case of minor injuries, but it is by no means typical. In one of the Board‘s most important responsibilities â€" vocational rehabilitation of the disabled â€" the system established over the years built up an effective and valuable rapport with injured _ workmen, making _ their rehabilitation a joint objective reached through shared experience from which Board representatives often gain knowledge which is invaluable in the handling of other cases. In broad outline, this is what Workmen‘s Compensation in Ontario is all about. Details of the system and the methods by which the Board fulfills its responsibilities in today‘s complex socicâ€"economic en vlranment will be discussed in future coli To administer the workmen‘s comâ€" pensation system, the 1914 Act established The Workmen‘s Compensation Board, Ontario, an autononomous body charged with carrying out specifics of the act and its regulations in an independent, objective manner. The act and its regulations establish benefits â€" financial, medical and rehabilitation â€" to which an injured workâ€" man is entitled. It is the Board‘s responâ€" sibility to make certain an injured workman gets his full entitlement. But the above, if you will, are the mechanics of the system, the tools with which Ontario‘s Workmen‘s Compensation Board achieves its goals. The basic apâ€" proach remains that recommended by Sir William and framed into law by the province‘s legislators in 1914. Cash benefits to injured workmen, for example, have increased substantially; the Ontario Workmen‘s Compensation Board‘s medical treatment and rehabilitation facilities have long been recognized as among the most advanced of their kind, a system which is studied and copied by jurisdictions around the world; the area of coverage has been greatly broadened, for example with the Ontario Board‘s early recognition that a working injury included industrial disease brought on by long term exposure to certain working environments. In the more than half a century since Sir William Meredith established major obâ€" jectives and set out the basic framework under which they might be achieved, Workâ€" men‘s Compensation in Ontario has maintained leadership in this vital field of social legislation. with no lime limit during which benefits would be available. Even the most advanced systems of 1914 stipulated maximum period of time during which assistance would be provided, regardless of the injured worker‘s condition. DC