Sisters ‘ f “Saint .1\/Iaritha P1213’ , Major A Role

I Offers Complete The City Hospital New. Therapeutic And The Red Cross X-ltay D_ep'arlmeni . ........ m——

itiﬁiring the last twenty years by mu“. w.LMudw‘"’ e P.EI. Division of the Canad- Consistent with the policy of

Ian Red Cross in the treatment

In: ¢_I_ure ‘of thgiusaﬁldlsdrof crippled

_ an ‘eapp c on in this

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“, mmmqu” ‘Dd uenmunt to the other hospitals in this Province, patient of this Province. it was an- nounced st the last Board of Gov-

especially the three larger ones, have played a major role. ernors meeting that the X-ray de- partment would be expanded and

FEBRUARY 21, 1950

Inspiring‘ 1&3... of ‘ Community Service Here Since 1916

maintained until the Sacred Heart Home was opened in 1925.

The Yell’ 195 was a momentous 3395:" the 111-'8 story of the Sisters 1 - Martha of Prince Edward Is- . ﬁnd. for in that year the Grey Nuns 0! Quebec. who had labond in the Diocese so faithfully for

themselves and become ‘ ﬂsofu! members of our cltlssndrip. sure- ly a Christian can have no great- er feeling of comfort and satisfac- tion than in knowing and realizing that he has been of great help in salvaging the physical life of s crippled child.

As I. result of this wonderful co- operation beirween the society and the hospital with the efficient medical staff and good sisters and

pot mam years the small prov- mce of Prince Edward Island has been famed throughout the length breadth of North America. as

me "Isle of Vocations" by reason ,1 me great number of priests and ‘religious it has sent into Christ's v1neyard—-Nort-‘Ii. South. East and

Ever since Doctor 'r.B. Acker of Halifax. Nova scotia. that skillful

west. But it was .not until 1916 forty-six years, were mm

W” ”‘°.....M°m5' $L,‘,"...."'--'i‘ -"1 “°“’L “.‘° °‘‘.‘“‘ - 0-": completely renovated in offer tho and wonderful Crippled Children's nus by of their superiors in ' very latest in both diagnostic a.nd Specialist. began his semi-annual mines. we can say with pardon- thcrapeutlc X-ray techniques. The and in later years many yearly able pride and with thanks also to

the great work of Doctor Acker and the generous people who have supplied the money that P.E.l. stands ahead of all Canadian Provinces on a per capita basis as to the number and ye. tage of crippled and handicapped children treated. In this connection the eve, ear and nose specialists and the oculists and dentists have accom-

gliehesc. aghese institutions were G 11 er th d.ir ti rarryina 011 dl"¢1’°“9 Works of sisters of st. Mllnnaecuolwat :1’: purity and education but new the newly.op,,,,,d sac,“ He." needs weer: a13isi3gLand Rlgggt {i;v- Home. erendﬁ ry . ' 9517. -u ell Only those wt; 11 1 3151-lop of Charlottetown. later in managing succh ' ‘lint-$§§°§f§ Archhlﬂp ed Edmonton. decided rjﬂlze the regmr-lbmtlea mun“ that W319 WIS 001118 to invite th0 —4h9Se too-dew I “_,' plonegn Wung women of the Province to had need, 1,, mm,_ of unboumhd from the lure of fields

lplllhln its boundaries. Three orders

of sisters were very admirably visits on account of the Poliomye-

liti_s epidemic, this‘ hospital has co-operated in every possible way. About 650 children have been treated and cared for in the City Hospital by Doctor Acker and members of the medical staff. Very greatly reduced charges have been made by the hospital and in many cases there has been no hospital

feature of this new deplu-amen-t will be the latest type model deep X-say therapy machine with a 50 RV. 16 MA type which offers the very highest voltage in general use for X-ray therapy in the treatment of

disease.

with the addition of this new machine. which ‘brings X-ray ther- apy in Prince Edward Isiand up to

turn :lxV;Y‘ t "Ml ltzaneroslty and lnfimte gnu; go afar o orm a 80115 0011' e up unflinchingly the buiacn the n “ma d t i m xrcgagItIhert:iev':‘t:i¢in es:-_§D€;‘—‘11&l;l"“n:g plysceg upon them in the inecrut- w,,"‘§, gum“? .‘.,,“f,,,.,,',‘,.,_,‘§. :1; charge. plished wonders. the 8 le eslsns of Divine Providence-— cancer and allied conditions has As a member of the Medical‘ In the past few years the Can- been made a feature of the main» Staff of this hospital for forty adiun Red Cross has led the world and

in the greatest life saving peace time work that was ever done, I mean the great undertak- ing of supplying blood to every hospital in Canada and the plan is a wonderful success. Every doctor can testify as to lives saved by the Red cross Blood Service which depends chiefly upon our great Canadian citizens who sup-

“I can 0 all things in Him who strengiheneth me" was their watch. word.

N1‘ ml‘-“Y Years after 1935 the efforts and energies of inc com. ml-lllllil’ were concentrated on greater cdificlency in one work. .1. ready assigned them rather than to the opening of new missions. At the cost of tonsideralble sacriﬁce.

V9375: as Chief of Staff for the last twenty years and as a mem- ber of the executive of the P. E. I. Division of the Canadian Red Cross Society for thirty years. eleven of which I had the great honor of being President. I was in a positio of liaison agent between the Society and the Hospital. No friction or misunderstanding has

Edivurd island.

llc requested the Sisters of st. Martha of Aritlgonlsh to assist in founding a diocesan community like unto theirs. To digress a little -ihe connection between St. Mar- the and the life of an active com- munity is seldom more neatly put than in the words of Most Rev- erend J. A. 0'sulllvan. writing in

ties of the Charlottetown Hospital. This department will occupy the whole suite which was formerly used as the Medical Records Deparment. Pharrnacy storage and the older X-say rooms together with splint room and storage depart- ments so that like new remodelled set-up will include a suite of rooms which gives the most. modern type

one of his‘ first 1 cirérglasi “letters the Sisters were given opportunities when Bis op 0 are et0’Wn to improve their education grid _ _ ",,.Sisters of St. Martha, whose technicsil akills in the various g‘,;;,‘,‘,*,§’,_.,,‘;‘ be Md "‘ “V X” ever occurred. The co-operation 1.... ply the blood. The City Hospital name brlnsﬁ 3': 011°C to mind W059 phases of administrative. hospital In keemnk with an the other db been sincere and complete. The co-operates fully and completely in mnmem, 0, me hospml the Society and the Hospital both this life saving service although work for a great and humane ob- it was one of the few hospitals in

touching scenes of intimacy with our dear saviour in ancient Bethany. whereemlr Lord showed by his tears and miracles. the boundless love he had for those in misery and distress." The holy woman. Martha. was canonizcd in- deed by Holy Writ for do we not um “Jesus loved Martha?"

Arrived Inc

on July 11th. 1916. Reverend Mother M. Stanislaus with two re- llgious ccuvpanions and four Island novices. who had been received in the novitiste the previous year for preliminary training, oasnc Charlottetown. establishing the first Mother House and Novitiate in the convent attached to st. Dunste.n'a University. In this they followed the footsteps of. the piomers of tho‘ Antigontsh congregation who dwelt first in a house sdioininc st. Francis xslvier University and paved the way for solid expansion in the future by their industry and saf- abnegation in the meritorious - vices rendered the University.

Mother Btanislaus remained with the infant. canmunity five years. then she was recalled to Antigon- 1&l'L. She left Charlottetown happy in see her work assured of con- tlnuity by the over-fatherly inter- est shown in it by Bishop Louis J. 0iLeu-y. His first care on comma to Charlottetown as successor to his brother, transferred to Edmon- ton in 1920. was to draw up Con- stitutions for the Community in conformity with Churdi decrees.

In the year 191), the founder- bishop had purchased, means of a donation from a generalize bonefactress. the Long property on the Mount Edward Road. opposite St. Dunstan‘s Uraversity. The house was odd but the site was considered inoomparably excellent for s. novltiato. 'llhe place was chrlstmed Mount St. Mary's. The house was enlarged the next year butsstimewontonsnoreroom was u'rgcntLv needed and Bishop o‘sull.ivan alilolwod the sister: to collect ﬂuviuhout the parishes for a new Illother House. several legacies augmented the funds and a new brick building was being considered when war brdse out in 1939. cancdling the plans. In 1946 a modest building program gave Mount 52. Mar-y's a completely renovated house for the Novltiate and a new house for administrat- ion and Mother I-louse.

Branching Out

The first branching out from the Duent stem was in 1918 when the Sisters were called in take care of the domeetl apartments of the Bishop"; Residence; in 1921 another Ilcp was taken in the development of the founder's far-sighted cher- ished plans when the Sisters took chime of the school in Kinlrora. a grosperous rural centre. thirty-

ve miles from Charlottetown.

small home for aged women known as the Hostel of st. Francis was opened in 1923 in the residence of "-he late Edward Kelly. near the

and educational activities; in this they were inspired and aided the example and aasiwcc of the Mother Comm “ in Antigoniah as well as by that of other relig-

volume of work has increased tre- mendously in the X—ray Department during the past five years. with the addition of the new hydraulic table in 1915-46, with the recent

A patients enjoyi

iou.s congregations. particularly those of the Misrltimes.

Steps In Progress

in 1931 the opening of the Social service Department in connection with the hospital was an interest- ing expansion cs charitable en- deavor. Religious Vacation schools. inaugurated first at St. Peter's in 1936. enabled the Sisters to do

to much for the religious education

of the larnlbs of the flock under the guidance of the pastors.

In 1942. a band of five sisters ear- tended. the work of the Institute beyond the confines ad the Prov- ince when they went to Kingston to cooperate in their own way with the work of the venerable Reglopol- is College by assuming some of the responsibility in the housekeeping, infirmary and dieiarrdepartments.

In the ssrne year the sisters be- gan teaching in‘ Glenaladele School (Tracadie Cross). The nnnnibcr of pupils have increased and the people are so anxious to retain the Sisters as teachers that a new con- vent is being built to provide I hcrne for them. The new two-room ‘school is bright and well suited to its purpose and takes its pines

the best of rural schools.

In 1944 the first steps were tak- en in ‘ounding the Western Kos- pii.a.l—-ihe Hotel Albion Terrace, was purchased. The next year a roomy-addition was built giving a bed capacity of forty. The hospital is tastefully furnished and equipped wlllh all the modern essentials for surgical. medical and obstetrical cases. It is a. great credit to the people of this section who. recognis- ing the benefit such an institution would be to them. gave the under- taking generous s .

The Lonncx Island Mission to which Sisters were sent in 1948. on the invitation of the Federal De- partment of Indian Affairs, opened up a promising field of activity‘ 13 work for the Indian population of the Diocese.

In 19¢ st. Teresa's new two- roomed school was taken dharge of by the sisters; here the teachers will emulate the excellent work done in Kinioora and 'l‘rcoadie by their sister religious for rural edu- cation. In at. Teresa's the Sisters live in a very comfortable new con- vent which also provides accom- modation for a few putpll-boarders.

The Sisters at St. Dunstan‘s Uni- versity are looking forward to the finishing of their new convent. a part of the building now in process of construction.

All the Sisters of the community reiolce in the complﬁl-3°" of the sorely-needed Private Pavllllon at the Charlottetown Homltai nntlcfplld ill! sltlﬂlctiun Of those in attendance when hey see the its convelllo ".

Reverend Mo (.11, present superior General of the Sisters of st. Martha of Prince Edward Island. Her community is

in nuns‘ compared with

lasillca. (now part of the Precious Jlood ssonutery). 'rhln‘houso was

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small that of sisterhood: who number in

.er M’.'!nroeaia.

The Charlottetown Hospital is a fully approved hospital by the American college of surgeons. No other organization’ on this con- tinent has done more for hospitals than the American College of sur- geons. This splendid! Association received its charter from the Fed- eral Government of the United States in 1912. and has carried on its wonderful work in both North America and other places since that time.

‘A survey of hospitals in 1912 re- vealed a very alarming and un- desirable state of affairs. The Am- erican College of surgeons under- took the formidable task of rem- edying this serious situation and in the last thirty-eight years a wonderful change in hospital con- dltions have been made.

For many years it has been mandatory that every approved hospital must have a properly or- ganized and qualified Board of Governors or Trustees. The Med- ical staff must be well trained and properly qualified according to the standard of the College and now in Canada according to the rigorous standards of the Royal College of Physicians and Surg- eons of Canada established in 1931. According to the same standard the nursing department must be fully qualiﬁed according to the Registered Nurses‘ Act of Prince Edward Island.

Every department of the hosp- ital must be kept at the highest level. All equipment — surgical. x-ray. laboratory. medical, obstet- rical —_ used in any way must be the most modern a'nd the best. There must be ample bed space

and the thousands; it is young in years

compared with veteran societies who give their age in hundreds. But God does -not despise small things: He will accept and bless the efforts of the superiors and sisters for the sanctlfieation of souls and the well-being of

ity in their beloved in-inee Ed/ward bland.

Our Congratulations to

sisrsns ossr. MARTHA

Upon A SPLENDID ACHIEVEMENT

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Fully Approved By College Of Surgeons

ALTAR.—dn the Chapel of the Charlottetown Hospital. _ .

for patients. Heating. ventilation, sterilization, sanitation must be carefully supervised.

The kitchen department is most important especially at this period when fittingly selected diet must be arranged and prepared by a duly qualified Dietlan.

The entire hospital must be a well organized and perfectly func- tioning machine. The main and in- deed the final objective is the wel- fare of the pptient.

Patients in a fully approved hospital are thus given a guaran- ‘tee that they will be properly treated by a fully qualified staff, that they will have good nurses. good food. good care, and will have the benefit of the latest advances in every department of the Hos- pital. The death rate in this hos- pital is low and would be much

pital with feelings of love forpandl gratitude to great doctors. espec-\ lally the late Doctor Peter Conroy and the late Doctor s.R./Jenkins. and to all the other Doctors, sis- tcrs, Nurses, and others with whom I have associated for forty years. It has been the greatest satisfac- tion and inspiration to me" to see the extraordinary improvement in all hospitals in this small but grear. Province as well as all over the continent. '

The College of Surgeons sends an inspector around every few years to visit all hospitals under their jurisdiction. On that inspec- tion a decision is made as to whe- ther the hospitals will remain on the approved list or not. It is a pleasure to say that all our hos- pitals in this Province. senator- ium. and Falconwcod, once having been approved. have maintained that high standard required by the College. This hospital today open- ing s new Pavilion, is the last word in hcmpltal construction in this Country. and in many re- spects far in advance. and as we thank the American College of surgeons for advice and guidance

lower if we could eliminate the many deaths of old people from 75 years up to the century mark.

This hospital has the advantage of being operated by the sisters of st. Martha. unique in being a strictly Provincial organization. All those sisters in charge are prop- erly qualified in the departments which they head. and nursing and teaching is a life work with them. and this is ideal'in attaining as near a standard of perfection as is possible.

It has been my privilege to he a Fellow of the American College of surgeons for twenty-seven years. and a Governor of the college for the past six years. On account of those positions I» have received an enormous amount of literature dealing with the gradual and re- markable improvement in hospital

"“ on this continent for twenty-seven years. My life's first objective has been my profession. and the first and indispensable factor for the proper treatment and care of the patient is the hospital. My sincere thanks are due Divine Providence for a long career in my ” " of m -"' I look back over forty years as a

member of the staff of this hos.

in reaching our present position. we can with perfect confidence and assurance say to our people in Prince Edward Island that when they enter this hospital as patients they will have the advantage of‘ the best treatment possible with the newest and best equipment av- ailable.

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jective and now both have ‘the satisfaction and comfort of know- ing that they have been the means of salvaging thousands of cripples, both juvenile and adult and have

cured them to the point when they are now able to maintain

this country that had a complete Blood Donor Service of its own for many years.

Those are some of the points il-

lustrating affiliation and co-oper- ation between the great Red Cross Society and the City Hospital.

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We Extend Our

, Congratulations To The Trustees of the

CITY. HOSPITAL

for their foresight and progressiveness in adding the new addition to the Hospital which new is completed with all modern facilities to cope with sickness of all kinds. Willi this new addition the City Hospital new is one of the most modern. and . up-to-date Hospitals in Eastern Canada.

We had the privilege and pleasure of supplying the fol- lowing floor-covering for corridors ,and rooms:—2l80 sq. yards of Jaspe inlaid Linoleum: 4680 H. of Cove lose

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