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What happens if you get sick
or have an accident while
you're travelling?
This is what Ontario is doing
to protect you away from home.
Your Ontario Health Insurance Plan (DRIP)
is designed to help you anywhere in the world.
In case of injury or sudden illness outside
Ontario, OHIP will pay the cost of standard
hospital accommodation.
For non-emergency services, it will pay up to
75% of the cost for the type of hospital service
normally covered under your Ontario Plan.
Medical fees will be reimbursed to you at 90%
of approved services as set out in the Ontario
Medical Association Schedule of Fees,
But bear in mind that medical costs in some
countries are„otten higher than in Ontario. So
avoid being faced with a bill considerably higher
than the amount OHIP can repay, you, by doing
four things:
1. Know what benefits OHIP provides before,you
leave home.
2, If you consider that your OHIP coverage may
be insufficient, you can obtain supplementary
coverage from private insurers for out of prov-
ince-charges,
3. Always carry your OHIP card with you.
4, In a financial emergency, ask the hospital to
phone or write OHIP to confirm your coverage.
Remember, you will usually have to make pay-
ment on the spot for treatment outside Ontario.
But OHIP will reimburse you for insured services
if you submit itemized receipts within 6 months
of the date of service.
Describe why you were outside of Ontario —
vacation, business, etc.—and provide complete
personal information plus details of the medical
or hospital service performed, Include name and
address of physician, hospital, fee for each
service and dates. And always state your OHIP
number.
A free booklet called "The Traveller's Guide
to the Ontario Health Insurance Plan" explains
everything you need to know.
Copied are available at government offices
and travel agencies. Or write to:
OHIP Traveller's Guide
Health Resource Centre
Communications Branch
Ontario Ministry of Health'
Hepburn Block, Queen's Park
Toronto, Ontario, M7A 1S2.
Ministry of Health
Frank Miller, Minister
Government Of Ontario
Premier
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precisely that opportunity; but
prefer to pass it up, puffing
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on. hThe ir addiction has
been described by one Hamilton
physician specializing in
preventive medicine as
"legalized suicide."
For despite the curtailment of
cigarette advertising and
warnings on cigarette packets,
arid research findings • that
smoking is associated with a
variety of serious health
problems, almost half the
Canadian population over the age
of 15 continues to smoke.
But beneath all the shrill
rhetoric about selling cigarettes
n separate, liquor-type stores
only, or charging three dollars a
pack for them, there's evidence
hat some progress -- albeit rather
slow -- is being' made towards
persuading people to quit.
Statistics Canada reports that
In1972, the latest year for which
lures are available, non-
makers made up 53.6 per cent of
he population over 15 years of
ge, The figure for 1965 was 50.2.
The decline in the number of
hysicians, who use cigarettes is
Whet Tore telling: only about 30
per4nt of MDs still smoke.
Most,,smokers who can't -- or
won't -- quit the habit rationalize
that "y ou've gotta go
somehow," or they persuade
themselves that using elaborate
filtering devices or switching to
brands lower in tar and nicotine
will make their habit safe.
But no matter how you look at
it, inhaling smoke into the lungs
egularly is harmful.
Most smokers recognize this and
would like to stop doing it.
Knowledge of the dangers
doesn't seem to be a powerful
enough force to eliminate
cigarette smoking entirely -- or
o reduce it dramatically.
What's needed is motiviation,
and health educators are
ecognizing more and more that
personal motivation isn't
ecessarily based on fear (".each
igarette smoked will take seven
nutes off your life"), or
tatistics (which engender only an
'it can't happen to me"
esponse), but on the individual
maker. Reasons for smoking --
d continuing to smoke 'in spite
the solid' evidence of
armfu!ness -- vary from person
o person. So persuading people
°quit is also a personal matter.
A pamphlet recently published
the Ontario Ministry of Health
aYs that quitting is a mind game
'ayed by smokers ,and Won by
(Today's Health is provided to
weekly newspapers by the
Ontario Ministry of Health)
by David Woods
quitters.The pamphlet is
available at doctors' offices,
hospitals, and pharmacies, and
can be obtained by writing to:
Resource Centre, Ontario
Ministry of Health, 9th Floor,
Hepburn. Block, Queen's Park,
Toronto M7A 1S2, Ontario.
What put me into the non-
smoking majority, for example,
was seeing a picture, in the OM
ario Science Centre, of a smoker's
lung.That was several months
ago and I haven't smoked since;
other smokers might have viewed
that picture more dispassionately.
Whatever your reasons for
breaking the cigarette habit, do it
soon. It's the greatest investment
in health you can make.
MRS, BERTHA LOWERY
Mrs, Bertha Lowery passed
away suddenly at her residence in
Brussels on Wednesday, October
30th, 1974. She was in her $7th
year,
Born in Walton, Ontario she
was the daughter of the late
Robert and. Elizabeth Fraiser.
Her husband, the late George
Lowery of SeafOrth predeceased
her in 1948. For many yhears Mr.
and Mrs. Lowery farmed on the
property on Goderich Street east
on which SEaforth Community
Hospital now is located. '
She was a, member of Melville
Presbyterian Church, Brussels; a
Life Member of the W.M,S. and
an active member of the Ladies
Aid of that church.
She is survived by her
daughter, Isabel (Mrs.Catneron
Adams) of Brussels.
Two sisters pi:-edeceased her;
Mrs. Alec (Susie) Lowery of
Seaforth and mrs.J.H.(Lily)
Vrooman of Goderich, and one
brother, Grant of Seaforth.
Funeral services were held
from the M.L.Watts Funeral
Home, Brussels at 2;00 p,ro. on
Friday, with Rev, C.A.McCarroll
officiating.
Burial tea place in Maitland,
bank .Cemetery, ,Seaforth,
Pallbearers were Gordon
Murray, Art Powell', Wallace
Powell, Robbie Powell, Charles
Murray and Wm, Adams.
J. HARVEY BRYAN
The death occurred in
Huronview, Clinton, on Saturday,
November 2 of J. Harvey Bryan of
Brussels. He was in his 92nd
year.
Mr, Bryan who,., was
predeceased by his wife, the
former Alma McKelvey is
survived by daughters *Mrs.
William (Phyllis) Fischer of
Cambridge and Mrs. Herb
(Marguerite) Stretton of Brussels
and Mrs. John (Myrna) Howard
of Listowel and a son Lorne of
Windsor: Also surviving are
fifteen grandchildren and
fourteen great-grandchildren and
by a brother • Robert of St.
Petersburg, Fla. He was
predeceased by one son Dr.
Russel Bryan of 'SeAforth,„40 by
thre. sisters and five hrether5.
Resting 011ie M,L.Watts Funeral
Home,. Brussels, until TUesday,
thence to St. John's Anglican
Church, Brussels where funeral
service was held at 2:45 p.m,
Interment' folloWed in Brussels
Cemetery.
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