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The Ottawa Citizen Kemptville Realizes Hospital Hopes -Tuesday, June 28, 1960 Page 13 0 wT 3 .1 1 i jj ip J51 jyg. I LJwJjuguLftL, jj 1 4 1 AC 1 r- I EveryoneHelpedBig Bay Tomorrow support for the hospital drive 7 -if. alloy, heated to 350 will keep meals hot as long as half an hour on the serving tray A time-saver in the P-saf de Casselman, federal member for the riding. Also present will be Dr. Ian Urquhart, chairman of the Ontario Hospital Services Commission, For the past two years, volunteer canvassers and other workers have labored to make their hospital dram come true, as area residents dug deep into area residents dug deep into their pockets.

Practically the whole community got behind the effort, including service clubs and other groups. Main Support Federal and provincial grants total 5224,078, and national corporations have also made substantial contributions. But the main has come from local citizens whose average gift has been $176. Formed at the start of the campaign was the hospital's women's auxiliary. Headed by Mrs.

Joseph Patterson, this organization has given extra energy and inspiration to the community enterprise. The auxiliary now is asking people to guess the date, hour and minute when the hospital's first baby will be born at one dollar a guess. The baby will receive $100, and the closest giiess will win $10. But no one could be more proud of the hospital than its By Philip Cooper Citizen Staff Writer KEMPTVILLE When the new Kemptville District Hospital is opened here tomorrow, many local residents will rave their first close look at the $740,000 project which their sacrifice and effort helped to build. Hon.

Dr. M. B. Dymond, Ontario Minister of Health and Welfare, will officially open the hospital at 2.30 p.m. Then the public will be invited to make a tour of inspection.

Among the guests at the opening certmony will be Highways Minister Fred Cass, member of the Ontario legislature for Gren-ville-Dundas, and Mrs. Jean FOR THE FIRST BABY modern obstetrical department shown getting final adjustments by three registered nurses. Left to right are Willa Black, Myrtle Scars and Lois Latimer. -FPG Photos Of special interest to all those "ladies in waiting" in the Kemptville district, where the first baby born after the official opening Wednesday, will receive an array of gifts, is the completely Hawkins. Miss Hawkins believes with apparent good reason-that the Kemptville District Hospital is one of the best and most modern in Canada.

Near School Just a sone's throw from the Kemptville Agricultural School, the new hospital now has 37 patient beds, including 10 basinets and 5 pediatric beds. But already installed are services adequate for a 65-bed hospital. "It isn't so costly to add more beds as it is to add new services," Miss Hawkins explained. Moreover, by adding a few more pieces of equipment like another boiler in the existing boiler room, an extra washer and extractor in the laundry the present plant could be made to serve a 100-bed hospital. Only worry about the hospital Is that patients may not want to leave.

Ample Space Each of the ward rooms painted in soft apple green or primrose yellow contains two beds and ample closet space. Between each pair of rooms is a toilet which connects directly with both. Eash room has a wash basin and closets. Patients won't have to wait for the nurse to arrive to tell her what they want! Before she leaves her station, they can inform her of their needs by using a handy intercommunication sys tem. Another time-saving feature is incorporated in the overall plan of the hospital.

This is the compact double corridor arrangement, which places all ward ser vices in "a central core between two corridors, off which open the wards. "We have found that less dup lication of services, smaller building perimeter, reduced heat loss and shorter walking distances are but some of the merits inherent in the double-corridor plan," reports Miss Hawkins. Oxygen is piped directly to each room from the spacious central stores department large enough to hold supplies of all kinds for a 100-bed hospital The wards are likewise fitted with suction outlets. Safety Devices In the well-equipped nursery is an incubator with a safety device which prevents a 'baby's receiving an overdose of oxygen. Many cases of blindness now are blamed on too much oxygen administered to newborn infants.

Meals will still be kitchen-hot when they reach the patients, without the need for any reheating. Pellets of a special metal ill lite titS! 1 partment is a novel light-trap device. This enables a doctor to view wet radiographs through the walls of the darkroom from outside, before the prints are dry. The hospital boasts one operating room for major operations and a fracture room where minor operations can be performed. The obstetrical delivery room is so designed and fitted that it can easily be converted into a secosd major operating room.

Under Miss Hawkins is a staff of 42, including her acting assistant, Mrs. Lois Latimer. On the job before they arrived were J. Douglas Callan, business manager of the hospital and secretary-treasurer of the hospital board, and Mrs. Helen Acton, the hospital's head clerk and stenographer.

Operating, room supervisor is Mrs. Mary Rowland, who also has charge of the central stores department. Over the seven-member dietary department is Mrs. Catherine Rapley. Meanwhile Miss Eidth Colvin heads the housekeeping staff, while Miss Emily Gogo is in charge of the laundry.

X-ray technician is Miss Ethel Styffe, and stationary engineer is Boyd Fraser. Modern Lab The hospital's modern laboratory will be staffed by an Ottawa firm of medical laboratory specialists. It will be equipped to handle every kind of medical test except for pathology. Dr. O.

F. Beamish will provide liaison with a medical staff of six to eight doctors. Chairman of the hospital board is A. M. Barr, principal of the Kemptville Agricultural SchooL Deputy chairman is M.

B. Marshall. Other members are K. R. Cam eron, is.

George, Rev. w. a. Corkum, R. K.

Martin, Norman Goldberg, Miss Margaret storey, Mrs. Earl Adams, H. L. Perking, S. A.

Price, L. Kingston, T. M. Wilson and J. L.

Pelton The hospital was planned by Ottawa architects Balharrie, Helmer and Morin General con tractor was the H. J. McFar- land Construction Co. Ltd. With the opening of the new hospital, the Kemptville district will be served by no fewer than 55 hospital beds.

Now in oper ation is the 18-bed Oxford Priv ate Hospital west of Kemptville, licensed for minor surgery, med ical and maternity cases. mm 1 1 READY FOR GUESTS t- it- I hospital, so everything will be in readiness for the official opening by Dr. Dymond tomorrow. Doris Beach finishes making up one of the semi private rooms of Kemptville's brand new YOUTH SUPERVISION CENTRAL SUPPLY Ottawa Answer lizes the instruments and dressings in a very short time. The central supply is considered one of the most modern in province.

Hospital superintendent Miss Marjorie Hawkins, RN, assists Willa Black prepare surgical trays for the sterilizer, which Myrtle Sears, foreground loading. High pressure steam steri NEWLY-ORDAINED Appointments For Priests ostel By W. M. Arnott Citizen Staff Writer There is urgent need for a youth hostel at Ottawa, Maurice Egan, director of the Youth Service Bureau, said today. Purpose of the hostel would be the provision of supervised living accommodation for young men over 17 whose present home conditions are not conducive to their becoming good citizens.

A survey is to be made relative to the type of accommodation needed, the size of the hostel and the number of youths to be cared for. While there is urgent need for supervised housing for some 83 young people over 17 years, present plans envision a residence designed to take care of from 12 to 15, Mr. Egan said. A recent survey made by a special committee of probation officers and members of the Ottawa Welfare Council showed that. In Ottawa, there are 115 young people, from IS years up, who need supervised home conditions, Mr.

Egan stated. Preventive Move "The situation we are confronted with is one stemming from the fact that we have young people who have come Into conflict with the law, we have others who have not yet reached that situation, but whose hom conditions, or lack of home He emphasized that the hostel, if established, would not be compulsory. It would offer a haven to young people where they could live under proper conditions, could go to work, pay board, and be sure of receiving the type of care they lacked at home and, in some instances, had never received. It would, of necessity, be exploratory in its first stages, designed to care for some 10 to 15 boys. He commented that of the 115 young people in need of such supervision, 51 were boys over 14 were boys under 16; 32 were girls over 16, and 18 under that age.

Financial Problem He expressed the hope that financial aid could be obtained from municipal or government sources, that help could be secured from some sponsoring body to make the hostel possible. In the meantime a special committee will make a survey on all facets of cost, probable buildings, sites, pnd other relative data and vill report its findings some time In August. "The need is there," he said. "It is a pressing need and should not be ignored. Similar hostels in Toronto have been successful and one at Ottawa can be equally so." conditions, is such that they will inevitably appear in the courts unless we can prevent its happening," he said.

It is the problem of the latter group that has given most concern, he added. He said Montreal judge, committing a youth to a reformatory, said recently, he had no other option. The offence in itself was not too serious but, to provide protection against a bad home environment, prison offered the only solution. "I can think of no worse indictment of our society than this, that prison or a reformatory is the only protection we can provide against bad home conditions," Mr. Egan asserted.

Grim Outlook "This lack of proper home conditions, a situation where a youth is forced into crime, is such that magistrates are, in large sense, sometimes forced to be unfair to a youthful accused in the desire to put him where he will get proper supervision and be removed from a bad home environment," said Mr. Egan. "Magistrate Glenn Strike and the local court probationers are in agreement that a youth hostel at Ottawa would go far toward salvaging young people who, otherwise will be lost to the community," he added. has been appointed curate at Saint Paul, Ay'mer. Rev.

Andre Fortin (Gatineau) has been appointed curate at Holy Rosary Parish. Ponte-Gat-ineau, for the months of July and August; in September, he will be curate at Saint Raymond, Hull. Rev. Marcel Cote (Pointe-Gatineau) has been appointed curate at Casselman. Rev.

Roch Besner (Saint Isidore) has been appointed curate at Saint Francis, Pointe-Gat-ineau. Rev. Ronald Bourdon (Sairt Isidore) has been appointed curate at Saint-J. Vianney, Gatineau. Rev.

Jean Roch Charlebois (Casselman) has been appointed curate at Thurso for the months of July and August; in September, he will be curate at Buckingham. Rev. Guy Locelle (Hawkesbury) has been appointed curate at Saint J. M. Vianney, Gatineau.

Announcement was made today from the Archbishop's Residence that His Excellency the Most Reverend M. J. Lcmieux, OP, DD, Archbishop of Ottawa, had made the following appointments of newly-ordained priests: Rev. Joseph T. Haley (Thurso) has been appointed curate at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Ottawa.

Rev. Barry W. McCrory (Saint Theresa's, Ottawa) has been appointed curate at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Ottawa; in September, he will follow a postgraduate course in Theology in Rome. Rev. Jacquej Faucher (Sacred Heart, Ottawa) and Rev.

Norm-and Laurin (Chute-a-Blondeau) have been appointed professors at Petit Seminaire d'Ottawa; during the months of July and August, Rev. Faucher will be curate at Family Church, Ottawa, and Rev. Laurin will be chaplain at the Catholic Diocesan Boy Scouts Camp. Rev. Jacques Preiseau (Hawkesbury), Rev.

Francois Beland (Rockland) and Rev. Henri Mauviel (Cyrville) have been appointed professors at Marie Mediatrice College in Hull. Rev. Marcel Massie (Ripon) has been appointed curate at Saint Bemadette. Hull.

Rev. Robert Dorval (Saint has been appointed curate at Saint Joseph, Hull. Rev. Hector Hamel (Gatineau) $100 Scholarship Paulette Frovost, 14, has been awarded a $100 scholarship by l'Amicale Sainte-Anne, a parish society. She obtained the highest percentage among pupils of Ste.

Anne's parish in the Grade 10 examinations st Rideau Street Convent. She will proceed into Grade 1L Paulette is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Provost, 45 Cobourg Street. LIGHT AND SHADOW Under The Covered Walkway.