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Unique Toronto hospital, only one of
kind in Canada, run by and for women

The possibilities which exist for women
sharply to my attention when I visited the

By DORISE NIELSEN

in the medical profession were brought
Women’s: College Hospital on Grenville St.

in Toronto. A hospital for women is not unusual. A hospital for women entirely staffed
by women is rare on this continent, and the Women’s College Hospital is the only one

of its kind in Canada. The’ ob-
Jectives of the hospital are to
Provide medical and surgical care
for women by physicians and sur-
S8eons of their own sex.

Contrary to what many think,
this is not a maternity hospital,
but a general one, divided into

S€ven services medical, surgical,
obstetrical, gynecological, eye-
€ar-nose-and-throat, dental, and

Pediatric, Besides these services to
out-patients there is also a VD
Clinic. Having no endowment, it
1S maintained by fees paid by
Patients, together with a provin-
cial grant of 50 cents a bed in
all public wards whether occu-
Pie@ or not.
. The hospital began as a Clinic
Mi 1896, founded by a group of
Men and women “who believed
Women should have an opportun-
Ny to study medicine.”
_ Built in 1935, the building itself
% modern and well decorated.
€ wards are all small, even
the public. wards having only six
eds in them, which gives a much
More Cosy atmosphere than is

found in the larger hospitals.

Public wards beds cost $4.00 a
day. Private and semi-private are
much higher.

Forty-five doctors constitute the
medical staff. Last year 5,489
adult patients were cared for in
the hospital, and 16,358 out-pa-
tients. Only one mother died and
twenty-five babies out of 1,938
babies born in 1946, which is a
high record, considering the in-
fant mortality rate for all Can-
ada was 55 infant deaths for
every 1,000 live births (1944).

On the top floor, are the two
rooms which constitute the re-
search laboratories, under the di-
rection of Dr. Eva Macdonald.

* * “ey

Canada is in desperate need of
4,000 more doctors today. In the
medical profession for which they
have many special aptitudes there
is every reason to believe that
women can make a fine contri-
bution to the welfare of the coun-
try to which they belong.

With an all woman medical

At hospital run by women

Dr,
Hospital,

Agnes White (right) and Dr.
Toronto, in the department for

t year the hospital treated 16,358 out-patients,
re ea eg aaa

staff, all woman nursing staff,
five women dietitians, a woman
apothecary, techicians, and other
staff, this hospital provides us
with a glimpse of possibilities
which exist for women in these
fields,

At the University of Toronto,
out of 911 students taking the
medical course this year, only

112 are women. It is interesting
to compare this with the Soviet
Union where women constitute
about 60 percent of the whole
medical profession.

Alice Dike attend to an out-patient at Women’s College
treatment of allergy, diabetic, chest and skin diseases.

pee

Here it is, gals

A new development in wo-
Men’s clothing has been re-
Ported by the University of
€w Hampshire. The new
Wrinkle is an apron with knee-
aie designed by clothing spec-

ac Margery Besson, The
Pads also double as plastic
Pockets when they’re not being
Used on a kneeling job.

bec other words, when you
Pockets, you button the
‘te to the skirt of the dress,
Nek in your gloves or what
ag you, and there you are. If,
few minutes later, you want
uh Protect your knees while
™ming a rose-bush, you just
© out the gloves, unbutton
Pockets, and fold them
Wn, and presto—kneepads.

WOMEN IN INDUSTRY

Day, AUGUST 15, 1947

Moslem women discard veil
to enter Yugoslav factories

SARAJEVO — More and more
of Yugoslavia’s Moslem women
are shedding the veil, symbol of
their ancient bondage and. of the
time when they could not leave
their houses. At a recent congress
of the Anti-Fascist Women's
Front here, even grandmothers
flung off the veils they were
wearing, joining their
sisters in the steady influx of
women into industry.

The veil traditionally worn by
Moslem women is no flimsy,
Hollywood-style affair. It is black
and heavy and covers the entire
face. Its wearer must peer
through it to find her way. En-
cumbered by the veil and by the
pillowing cloth in which they cov-

‘

younger

ered themselves from head to
foot, Moslem women could not
work.

These ungainly clothes found a
novel use from 1941 to 1945.
Many a Moslem woman tucked
guns and ammunition into the
folds of her costume and made
her way to supply partisans in
the wooded hills of Bosnia-Her-
zegovina, scene of the heaviest

fighting.

Talking things over

The daily round

IT SEEMS that working mothers are causing quite a
problem, in fact it is so acute that a Legal and Economic
Questions Commission has been formed with Sweden, Britain,
Australia and the United States participating. Its task is te

figure out how women can hold
jobs and at the same time look
after the home and raise a
family.

In Sweden, cooperative flats essen-
tially for professional people have
been successful. With both par-
ents working, the children are
able to attend first-class nurser-
ies staffed with the best. of
trained help. This sounds like a
fairly. good idea except for the
fact that only those families in
the high income brackets are able
to afford this service.

A spokesman for the Interna-
tional Federation of University
Women says that the problem
must be solved by professional
women, but I think that women
working in industry will do more
to solve the problem since, being
unable to earn enough to pay a
full-time housekeeper, they are
more likely to take action in
their communities to have nurs-
ery schools established. No doubt
some of the women’s auxiliaries
of trade unions have tackled this
question as well as other progres-

-|sive women’s groups within the

community.

In Britain, where the govern-
ment is crying for workers, one
would expect to find government
sponsored nurseries, but it appears
that women there too are having
to take full responsibility for
care of theft children while they
go out to work.

Thirty-five mothers in one
town locked themselves in a nur-
sery which the town council had
threatened to close down. After
a couple of days the police climb-
ed in the window and the moth-
ers eventually agreed to leave,
but not before they had been
promised an interview with their
representative on the county

} council,

The -representative stated thar
36 children attended the nursery,
and although the women had a
good case he felt that the cost
of the project was falling too
heavily on the town. Such is the
price women are forced to pay
for their economic independence.

* * *

LITTLE KATY can hardly wait
until she is old enough to start
school. Her idea of time is very
limited and it is no use telling
her that. it will be two years be-
fore she is old enough, for to
her two years may mean anything
from a month to a century.

No doubt many of you have
children who will start off to
school for. the first time this
year. If so, give them a break
and get them used to the idea.
Many six-year-olds become quite
emotionally and physically upset
when the big day arrives, so to
avoid this happening, here are a
few hints to be considered.

First of all, the child’s hea:tn
should be checked, as seemingly
small physical defects may handi-
cap the youngster. Such defects
may include bad teeth, infected
tonsils, poor vision, enlarged ade-
noids, poor hearing and anemic
appearance. Make sure the child
is immunized against smallpox,

diphtheria and whooping cough,

as there is a much greater chance

of a child becoming infected
when coming into daily contact
with hundreds of children.

It is also a good idea to work

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in a daily routine similar to a
school day. The ‘child should de-:
velop the habit of rising at ai
regular time, eating an adequate:
breakfast and retiring at ani
early hour... - a :
Can be manage all his own!
dressing? Tie his awn, shoes? Do;
up. his own buttons? Be sure!
that in encouraging him to be in-!
dependent, you maintain his feel-:
ing of security. -- ee
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If a child has been attending
kindergarten, he will be used@ to’
the idea of school, but for those
who have had few ‘friends and’
have played most of their time
by themselves, ‘they may find
such a strange new:experience 2
bit overpowering. It will be eas-
ier if they have already visited
the school and have met the.
teacher and the school nurse. If
the child believes that he has
a happy’ experience to look for- -
ward to then it will be happy |
school doys for him.—B.G. :

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