Times & Guide (1909), 21 Nov 1963, p. 8

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_ _ I get i Association disease is k _ only 785 de official pub £ ToR PARBeWE, EOOE PCPE i e e t t . (Superintendents never are), but then there are the others . . . 1 worked as a secretary at Weston TB San for a time, eleven years : ; we‘d just come to Canada and it was my first job ten days x‘l stepping off the plane. I found the San a fascinating place \ t6 work; I was secretary in the Pathology Lab. which was where + tests of all kinds were performed on patients‘ blood and byâ€" . products . where biopsies were made, sputum bottles washed, culâ€" tures "cooked" to determine whether a patient‘s disease was still active and so on. One of my unofficial jobs was to keep peace between the two elderly male irascible bottleâ€"washers and the murses (the nurses always claimed they didn‘t get all their bottles back). Also there were always running feuds between some nurses and some laboratory technicians, who were all as temperamental as prima donnas. s get hold of the September issue of the Canadian Tuberculois bulletin and was interested to see that this ancient . is killing fewer Canadians every year. In 1962 there were | k deaths from all types of TB throughout Canada, But what | f publications of this kind never print is the story behind | k: statistics. If they ever purported to give the public an inside | view of a San, it would be a roseâ€"coloured picture which would | _show only the dedicated nurses and noble, highâ€"minded doctors | administering to obedient, pathetically grateful patients, all workâ€"| ing as an enthusiastic team under a kindly, efficient superintendâ€" _ ent whose interest and benevolence would extend to even the pigs \‘Hattening on kitchen waste in the San grounds. West Metro doctors enjoyed a #ull day of "Shop Talk" when a Clinical Day was held at St. Joâ€" ; seph‘s Hospital last week. The meetings were chaired by Dr. Z. J. Borowy and Dr. F. E. One of the maddening aspects of TB is that a patient can, after treatment, be in excellent health and ready to leave the San, but because his sputum continues to be positive he‘s a danger to others and cannot be released. For some unknown reason a paâ€" tient can remain "positive" for months after his disease is apparâ€" ently cured and all other symptoms gone. This peculiarity of the disease is one of the reasons why TB is reputed to increase a patient‘s romantic urge. In fact, it doesn‘t, but what happens is that the patient is isolated from the outside world for comparatively long periods of time, his activities are restricted to walking around the grounds in good weather, making stuffed animals or keycases, > writing letters or reading, but he‘s well enough to be out of bed most of the time. Visits from families are sometimes few, if the patient comes from the other end of the province and it‘s not ‘surprising if after a time, he develops an interest in the opposite _sex. Like shipboard romances, most of these wither when the ~patient is discharged, but sometimes the results are serious. Frank : and Doris were two patients who were having a torrid affair when I worked at the San. When Doris went into surgery for a big operaâ€" tion one morning, both her husband and Frank waited outside the ‘eperating room, exchanging cigarettes and encouragement. This operating room, exchanging cigarettes and encouragement. Someâ€" times patients sneaked away from the San for a few hours to go zon a binge; I remember when two male patients came back from =a foray once, locked the night nurse in a cupboard and distributed ~beer to the rest of the boys on their ward. Of course, the Association‘s bulletin never carries stories like | this in case the public thinks that life in a San is all beer and | &kittlel. It isn‘t and after working in one, I have a great deal of | ‘respect and affection for the work that is done inside. May the| Christmas soon come when all our Sans close down for lack of I also attended autopsies to take notes for the doctor when the tape recorder broke down, which it did all the time. I learne« a great deal about people from these autopsies. I watched the doctor remove diseased organs with skill and reverence for the body; I watched one of the bottleâ€"washers (who subbed as an autopsy assistant) clumsily dab at a dead face to wipe off a drop of blood; I saw a dead woman with painted toes and I knew she had been a brave woman, because it takes courage to make yourâ€" self beautiful for death; I saw how, after the lungs had been reâ€" moved as they usually were, the chest cavity was stuffed with old newspapers and then sewn up to make it tidy for the undertaker. ‘ Obstetrics & Gynaecology: *an Deformed Babies?"; > . DPr. J. V. Ord, Department of Kingsway Baptist Study Group Donates $50 for Xmas Hampers body; I watched one of the bottleâ€"washers (who subbed as an U e l * e l , 0C _SÂ¥ha 20 ashl at the music heard pouring autopsy assistant) clumsily dab at a dead face to wipe off a drop :a:;fig?" . . g \fourthâ€"Beethoven‘s Fifth Symâ€" ‘ of blood; I saw a dead woman with painted toes and I knew she ,-.'g;__!g! ‘phony, Dvorak‘s Karnival Overâ€"| had been a brave woman, because it takes courage to make yourâ€" -:*é;'-'.-' ’_"' ture, the Concerto for Orchestra | self beautiful for death; I saw how, after the lungs had been reâ€" + .9 by Bartok. These are all being | moved as they usually were, the chest cavity was stuffed with old \rehearsed for the concert on | newspapers and then sewn up to make it tidy for the undertaker. QUICK TRICK â€" Here‘s one of the easiest ways of all to odd!fiz::tr:bf{-ug?tgrtif;yaé::;k S((:)?é. | Anotber unoifficial chore was letting new lab. technicians in 9 touch of elegance to a simple tablecloth. Just crochet an‘;c) a; ns eoncert will be well | the haematology dept. use me for practice runs with their hypos. |edging and see how the original tablecloth is transformed int0 \known Toronto Opera singer. These technicians had to collect daily blood samples from patients O Cistinctive creation. The result is guaranteed to moke every sylyia Grant, who will sing and if they weâ€"e out of practice when they came to the lab., I mealtime a special occasion. No. PCâ€"1882. Send stamped adâ€" arias from Puccini and Mozart.| usually got conned into offering my nice, plump, unpunctured arms !dressed envelope for free pattern. Miss Grant was recently comâ€" for target practice. At first I didn‘t realize how painful it would | _ o ~ gg ns me'}gdle'd for h];" SI?;g-mF of D?n}; be; afterwards 1 felt it was cowardly to refuse. The technicians ?:e C;;l?di]ann O();eral%‘oanmn“r"at often had to make several attempts and for weeks I walked around A N ew Look o ‘ O Koete Centre. mpany speakers and subjects: .. Dr. J. A/ Mcintyre, Department :h "l‘rm: "Gastic Hypotherâ€" Ir. R Voipeâ€"Dr. H. J. Watt, Denartment of Medicine; "Isotoâ€" UEMBILY m\ EUIIIIEIE IIMME! MIERAMOR OS COHR P OMOOEY PAE EnE eE CC0Td for target practice. At first I didn‘t realize how painful it would | be; afterwards 1 felt it was cowardly to refuse. The technicians | often had to make several attempts and for weeks I walked around with arms that looked grangrenous. . Many of the lab. and hospital staff were exâ€"patients; some of them stayed on because they were afraid to leave the protection and facilities of the San. Others stayed because they were too 6ld, too unskilled, too tired to compete in the outside world and the San provided a room of their own, security and companionâ€" ship, even if the wages were small. Of course, the regulations and petty tyranny imposed on resident workers in the San would have @riven a saint to drink â€" and often did. I suppose it‘s still the Mrs. R. H. Soward, president of the Inter Church Council, was guest speaker at the November meeting of the Kingsway Bapâ€" tist Mothers‘ Study Group. patients. Introduced by Mrs. V. J. Towâ€" ers, Mrs. Soward delighted her audience with a most vivid desâ€" éription of her recent trip to the Holy Land. Her taik, illustrated with pictures, was reported in glowing terms as "an inspiration of true beauty and color". Mrs. L. Adams thanked the speaker on behalf of the group. Mrs, B. Sinclair, accompanied at the piano by Mrs. J. Eck, gave a charming rendition of Bach‘s Beée Thou With Me, and a quarâ€" tette contprising Mrs. J. McKerâ€" dry, Mrs. R. Watsom, Mrs. S. Vozâ€" oris and Mrs. McElwee, accomâ€" panied by Mrs. Cumming, sang Doctors‘ "Shop Talk" Session Covers Variety of IIIs The following were the guest Talkingpoint Volâ€" By JOAN SEAGER | _ Business was conducted by the president, Mrs. J. Rycroft, with \the assistance of the secretary, |Mrs. A. Gall, The group decided ‘to donate fifty dollars to Miss {Gaverluck for Christmas shampâ€" ers to be distributed among needy New Canadian families. the lovely hymn ‘"Trusting in Jesus". Mrs. Thistlewaite gave the deâ€" votional on the "Parable of the Sower" as found in Mathew. Chapter 13. Guests included friends and ladies of the Afternoon and Eveâ€" ning Mission Circles of the Church., Dr. G. G. Dale, Department of Orthopaedics: "Athletic Injuries" ; Dr. J. N. Henning, Department of Pathology: "Diseases of the Chromaffin and Nonâ€"Chromaffif System"; Surgery: "Management of Tenâ€" don Injuries of the Hand"; _Dr. W. P. Kyne, Department of Psychiatry: "Narcotic Addiction"; Dr. J. L. McCollum, Departâ€" ment of Urology: "Diagnosis & Treatment of Prostatitis"; Dr. Ramsay Gunton, Associate Professor of Therapeutics, Uniâ€" versity ‘of Toronto: "Treatment Of Heart Failure". The executive members acted, as hostesses for the evening and provided the refreshments for the Social Hour. Dr. D. J. McDonald, Departâ€" ment of Ophthalmology: "Ocular Manifestations of Systemic Disâ€" at, A New Look ... .._At Education William Morrow and Co., Inc., New York, has just published a book on educational testing enâ€" titled "They Shall Not Pass," by Hillel Black, The book reâ€" veals in poignant dramatic form the shameful and all too often stubborn ignorance of school ofâ€" ficials and psychologists; and how the attitudes of these eduâ€" cational pedagogues affect the lives of children who come unâ€" der their jurisdiction, I predict the book will be greeted with mixed emotions: it will be read with shock, with disbelief and with rage. I aiso predict that little, if not nothâ€" ing, will be done about the situâ€" ation for at least another decade. For when the last angry word has been spoken in its defence and the last denial heard from those who stand accused, we shall still be left with the vieâ€" tims and the schools that have been built to hide them in. What Mr. Black says in his ‘book differs only in form from iwhat has been said before by ‘others sensitive to the situation. A handful of U.S. educators warned of this permicious pracâ€" tice ten years ago as I did three years ago when protesting the building of the new Castle Frank school for slow learners. But where Mr. Black scores and where he may possibly make greater impact, is im his presenâ€" fation. He seems to have recogâ€" nized that change cannot be acâ€" complished without public presâ€" sure and that parents need not necessarily be experts to recogâ€" nize something is wrong. This ‘they can readily do ‘when readâ€" ing Mr. Black‘s list of case hisâ€" tories. Indeed, they will not only recognize that something is wrong, they will also recognize ‘thrir own children or those of |their neighbors. One case deals with a child from Puerto Rico who began her schooling at the age of six in | the Bronx. The only language| she k new was Spanish. She worked hard and, although she had to repeat her second year.| reached the fifth grade by the | age of 12 and ranked first in her| class. Then, in November ‘61, the New York City school system declared her a mental defective. Despita the efforts of the teaâ€" cher and other teachers whom she rallied to her support, the school psychologist won. The child was classified as a near mental moron and this Septemâ€" ber began her fourth semester among the retarded. Her classroom /teacher â€" was stunned. She knew of the child‘s dream to become a nurse and had seen how hard and well her pupil had studied. Although poor in reading. the child‘s marks in spelling and arithmatic were perfect. But the school‘s psycholâ€" ogist was adamant, He was not concerned with the child‘s classâ€" room performance. He ruled on the school‘s highly verbal, Engâ€" lish â€" oriented intelligence . tests and the child‘s I.Q. score was a Gismal 62. which meant she would be placed in a class for retarded children. At this point. Mr. Black‘s judgment appears to dessert him. tor he attempts to be fair and by Joy McAllister A Lack of Faith objective with the school offiâ€" cials involved who do not know the meaning of the words: "They may have made the correct deâ€" cision," he writes, "since the child‘s teacher in the retarded class says that the child canâ€" not do regular schoolwork." _ Now, what manner of reasonâ€" ing is that? It should be obvious ‘to all that a child who began school with absolutely no knowlâ€" ‘edge of English, but who had managed to absorb over four years of schooling, placing first and second in her class in most lsub]ects, was not a "mental morâ€" on." It should also be obvious to all but a mental moron that a child who has had her dreams shattered; her sense of dignity stolen, would not be able to do regular schoolwork anywhere â€" particularly in a class for the reâ€" tarded. But Mr. Black continues in a stronger vein and his case "isâ€" tories add up to what is virtually a public scandal. I urge all Canadians to read this book and when they do I hope they will not think "it canâ€" not happen here" because it can â€" and has â€" and is happening. Parents will recognize the tellâ€" tale signs in our system of "readingâ€"readiness." That abomâ€" inable practise which divides our children into three groups: Beavers, Bunnies and Donkeys. Every parent living knows what a donkey is and so do the chilâ€" dren. Our officials will deny the truth in this book even more veâ€" hemently than their American counterparts, They always have â€" but the bald fact remains that they have designed our educaâ€" tional system to help them reâ€" shuffle social classes and to channel students as far as their ability will take them. And, as The directory lists cruises to the MEDITERRANEAN, BLACK SEA, HAWAIl, CARIBBEAN, . The PACIFIC, roundâ€"theâ€"world â€" nomes ships, ports of call, costs â€"‘also ifformation about land tours. Tâ€"Day Cruises e COME IN FOR YOUR FREE COPY TOâ€"DAY e ‘Kingsway â€" Islington Chapter ‘Installs 1963â€"64 Officers Associate Matron, Mrs. Freda Fetterley; Associate Patron, Mrs. Edward Smith; Secretary, Miss Eileen Barraclough; Treasurer, ‘Mrs. Dorothea Hobbs; Conducâ€" {tress, Mrs. Catherine Hunt; Asâ€" ‘sociate Conductress, Mrs. Doroâ€" ithy Evans; Chaplain, Mrs. Myra Kendall; Marshal, Mrs. Laurene Finnemore, P.M.,; Ada, Mrs. Maggie Iverson; Ruth, Mrs. Maâ€" bel Clark; Esther, Mrs. J anet McBain; Martha, Mrs. Isobel Jackson; Electa, Mrs. Amy Daâ€" \vidson; Warder, Mrs. Iris Smith; At an impressive ceremony in the Senior Citizens Building, 4968 Dundas St. W. on Tuesday, Nov. 5, Mrs. Ivy Mackenzie was installed as Worthy Matron and Mr. Oassian Mackenzie as Worâ€" thy Patron of Kingsway â€" Islingâ€" ton Chapter No. 187, O.E.S. for the ensuing year. Installed with them, were the following offiâ€" cers: Two Speakers At Social Planning Meet Anyone passing by by Humber Valley Village School on a Wedâ€" nesday night would be amazed R.Y. Collegiate To Echo Sounds Of Opera Arias Tickets for the concert are now available from any member of the orchestra, at the Etobicoke Recreation Dept., or call Mrs. T. T. Sahaidak, BE, 1â€"8175. The needs of the Lakeshoreâ€" Etobicoke district will be disâ€" cussed at the Lakeshore â€" Etobiâ€" coke Area Social Planning Counâ€" cil luncheon meeting slated for next Thursday at 1215 at All Saints Church, 2850 Bloor West. Principal speakers will be Mrs. Hazel Thompson, of the Family Services Association, in Rexdale and Rev. David McGuire, presiâ€" dent of the Ministerial Associaâ€" tion, Topic will be "Needs as they relate to you in your comâ€" munity". 2 According to authorities, the Lakeshoreâ€"Etobicoke area needs extended hospital out â€" patient service, and a deâ€"centralized juâ€" venile court. Day nursery servâ€" ices are also considered inadeâ€" quate. These points were ackâ€" nowledged at the Social Planâ€" ning Council October meeting and discussion along this vein will highlight the November meeting. At the last meeting, New Toâ€" ronto public health nurse Mrs. Ruth Raby charged New Toronâ€" to and the Lakeshore in general is not taking advantage of Bill 148, which is designed to proâ€" vide increased homemaking servâ€" ices through the Red Cross by absorbing 50 per cent of the cost. For luncheon reservations call Mrs. Polkinghorn, at 363â€"4971, not later than noon Nov. 26. I have said before, in permitting this practice to continue we reâ€" veal a peculiar lack of faith in ourselves. Differences exist, yes. Some children do take longer to learn than others. But, is there any reason why they should be deâ€" nied the same opportunities? Sentinel, Mr. Wm. Edwards, P.P Mr. John Hamer, P.P.; Installing Marshal, Mrs. Viola Stephenson, P.D.D., G.M. and Hon. Member Kingswayâ€"Is.; Installing Chapâ€" lain, Mrs. Edythe Kendall, P.M.; Floral Ceremony, Mrs. Marguerâ€" ite Tapp, P.M.; Installing Organâ€" ist, Mrs. Charlotte Cook, P.M. of Canada Chapter. The Immediate Past Matron, Mrs. Lillian Mitchell along with other Chapter Officers assisted in the ceremony . . . during which time, all enjoyed the very fine Primrose Chapter Choir. Many distinguished guests were present, including Mrs. May Waters, Grand Ruth; Mrs. Doris Lowe, D.D., G.M. Dist. No. 10; Mrs. Mary McAlpine, P.D.D.â€" G.M.; Mrs. Marion Ross, P.D.Dâ€" G.M.; Mrs. Hazel Eggett, P.D.D. and Hon. Member of Kingswayâ€" Isl.; Mr. Charles Eggett, P.P. of Primrose Chapter and Mrs. Lotâ€" the Saunders of Amherst Chapâ€" ter, Williamsville, N.Y. The evening was climaxed by the serving of excellent refreshâ€" ments. Selection includes florals, plains, lace trims. Sizes 1 to 14. Excellent value ... 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