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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1970-05-14, Page 9Hospitals and schools are much alike, the kindergarten children from Clinton and Adastral Park learned when they toured Clinton Hospital last Tuesday as guests of the Superintendent of Nursing and the Hospital Auxiliary. They both have long halls with lots of doors and lots of rooms. The people are different, because the people in the hospital rooms are mostly old people who lie in beds.'People in schools are young people, who sit at desks. The halls have nurses walking in them instead of teachers. The nurses wear hats and uniforms, which are short, but not really short. This was a remark made by one little girl, which led to a discussion as to why nurses couldn't wear mini uniforms While on duty. Many kindergarten children have mini-skirted mothers, so they knew why mini skirts wouldn't be proper. Mothers, did you know how observant your children really are? This observance was evident, while on the tour, because the man in the wheel chair was being taken to his bath bya girl nurse, Was the young girl really going to bath the man? Why do some older women have whiskers and why could we not hear the babies cry? Why were the surgeons scissors bent and how did he bend them'? Why did sheets that didn't look dirty have to be washed and how are the babies born? Why did the big boy in the therapy room have a wax foot and why did Mrs. Zablocki have to lie on a bed just to have her arms stretched? These are a few of the questions asked during, and after the visit. Our favourite patients were the little girl,waiting to have her hip sewn up, Mrs. Bno, a baby sitter for several children, David's Grandma Bernard 'and Jennie Young, for whom we sang some of our songs. We did not like the low lighting in the halls, but the patients couldn't sleep if the lights were too bright. We didn't like all the different smells but some places smelled' good—like fresh paint in the halls and the cookies in the dining room. We felt sorry for the man in the wheel chair. We liked all the nurses—especially the one who let us wind the beds up and down. If we ever go to the hospital, we hope she looks after us, because she was nice and she had a short skirt. We liked all of the ladies in the dining room and especially the "good cooker", who made the peanut butter cookies. If we were in hospital, could the ladies from the kitchen come up to visit us? We liked the little cagey thing where the new babies are put when they come out of the mother. Ties mother will be on the big bed and his new sister will be put in the little cagey bed to keep warm. If we get our tonsils out, we will be on the bed where the big tights are. We won't be afraid of the hospital if we have Lo go because it's a lot like school and everyone is nice to little people. Maybe even we could have another ride on the elevator. We say Thank You to everyone for letting us see the inside of the hospital and we hope we didn't bother you while you worked. We learned that nurses are "on duty" but the other people were "at work", They sure have funny ways of talking up at the hospital, but we liked them anyway. Mrs. D. Williams 'and the kindergarten students of Clinton Public school Lynn Bell and her teacher Mrs. Dorothy Etue, of the Air Marshal Hugh Campbell school were fascinated as they looked through the nursery windows at the babies. Kindergarten students from Clinton Public School and Air Marshal Hugh Campbell School at Adastral Park toured Clinton Public Hospital last Tuesday, Here Lynn Bell of Adastral Park peers through a microscope in the hospital laboratory while Chad Wiebe and Mrs. Anna Brand, an employee in the lab, watch. This was as far as the children got in their look at the sterilized operating room. Miss K. Elliott; Director of Nursing at the hospital conducted the tour which included a view of the operating room through the open doors. This group of Adastral Park students includes Sandy Baird (left) Steven Maclnnis (striped shirt) and Chad Wiebe (facing camera). and some of the questions after. Clinton News-Record QL,I.NTON„. QNTARIO — THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1.9.70_ 105th YEAR No. n $EQQND SEQTION MIIIIIIII III I11011111 WMI1MMM0P MIMII IIMM01 M M W1WI 0 W M 101l siiluPwlnwi lfO i111 111110ilI11 l II m W01111 WP H W W iw l OooifiMMIIiinlniMII111,111 41 , . 1 imil l i WM P mo iO0 m I n unusual tour A trip to a hospital For kindergarten pupils Ali ice Making machine Wasn't the Most sophisticated machine- fascination for many' Of the students. Here Trent ERtey, Graham the children Saw daring their tour, but it held a certain MadVallY and thris Phillips look into the freezing deep. Trent Exley had a good laugh when Steven Maclnnis tried on a surgical mask in the hospital's central supply section. Then Trent had a chance to pot on a mask himself and other students (fromforeground) Helen Tanguay, Steve Math-411s, Bert Harper, Chris Phillips, had a 'chance to laugh, but seem to he more worried that trent might smother, Eileen Johnston helped youngsters With the masks. 0 6-0 Photos by K. Roviston