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salaries," Mrs. Morrey recalls.
' Lots of times patients, themselves short of
cash, would pay their bMs with produce
instead of money. It was not uncommon...to
•• get potatoes, vegetables or chickens" as
, payment, and these were consigned to the
,hospital kitchen.
Only later, when the province introduced
health insurance program, did hospitals
• begin to receive regular operating grants..
• ... Year" of Growth '
• In 1946 the Wingham General :Hospital
built its first addition, increasing its capacity
to 33 beds and adding a kitchen and an
auxiliary room.. • ,
What started this was the gift of the
hospital's first x-ray machine, obtained
through a bequest from the John Cornyn
Currie Estate which was administered by the
late William Galbraith. *This machine was
. put into the old kitchen-diningroom, and
Mrs. Morrey added xray technician to her
° • . other duties. -• •
Nine years later, in 1955 the hospital
added a 50 -bed chronic care wing. Mrs.
Morrey remembers traveling to Ottawa to
get the permission of Mr. Martin, then
minister of health, for the •.fieW, wino.
That same year .the hospital started the
cancer unit in what is now the area occupied
by physiotherapy 'and the boardroom. This
was the first such clinic outside London and
• • was quite an honour, but the load got too
'heavy and eventually it was necessary to
move the clinic into what had been the
nurses' residence. . , •
The McPherson home had been bought in
1948 andconverted into a .residence for
nurses.• • • • 0 •
The new Wilding .added a big, new
kitchen and cafeteria'and in additon there
were two detention rooms: instead of putting
drunks in jail, they were brought, to the
hospital to sober up.
• In 1967 a second floor was built on top of
• the chromic wing. That was the hist major
• addition and brought the hospital to its full
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turning • out classes of registerid nursing bowed to the ministry directive and closed 14
assistants who consistently rank at or near
the top in their provincial examinations.•
There has always been changesbeds.
' in the
pattern 'of use of the hospital. Unlike the
early days, when hospitals were regarded as
"a place you go to die", there has been
increasing use of outpatient services such
as physiotheraphy, a stroke unit and a
mental health centre. -
In response ,to this demand, Hospital
complement of 104 beds, although another first "., *Ingham became the
1%4"Y "tell no One ever was turned awa; fithtt OhnsattiritaollanothsPlsitaaiel aArsocbelaaticeo:diltetastibt:
and she can remember times when there
Were 120 Or more patients in the hOtpital, bluthtin:14 HreAceoli,ivees mthotreke;Yfenargotrehdols:41°111:'
with beds in the hallways • and . wherever . .• .
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the ambulance service, -.which . had been 'Hospital has•continued to develoP and aaapt
; g ig -
,regulations and high insurance rates per. • needs- although the road has not always
suaded the funeral directors to get out of the been smoOth,
business, and the hospital hat to go looking • Its reputation infene of the most efficient.
for some ambulances its own., Only later hospitals in the firtivince regularly returtiin
• • -g
a surplus Att.the ministry, at the end of each
year, did not save it from the axe when, two
' years ago,'the health ministry announced
plans
plans tO cut back active treatment beds in
the province. After holding out for several
Months, with the support of local eitizent
and councils, the hospital board eventually
space " could. he made. • • New Developments
• About that time the hospital also took over nrecentyears the fig am and s c
operated by local funeral directors; New • its services to meet han in conditions and
ddt e m ns try take over the ambulance
service, . .
Again, as during the previous expansion
programs, the hopsital : had to : go to the
municipaigrivernMents and county councils
for financial: support, and as ahvays they
responded very well, Mrs Morrey reported.
Nuking Aseletaxits '
• During tit years of World. War II; with
Administrator Norman Hayes islooking at
the •possibility, several years down the toad,
of adding a new wing to -house expanded
outpatient services.
• In die.'" meantime, the hospital currently is
set to embark on a $500,000 renovation and
building project to improve accommodations
for a number of departments and add•
, administrative offices at the front
Again the hospital turned to local
municipalities for help in raising funds and,
as in the past, the 'councils showed their
supporta of the hospital by contributing
$100,000 toward the project.
many nurses posted overseas, there was a
severe shortage of trained nurses to serve in
local hospitals, and this led to a development
of which Mrs. Morrey • and the Wingham
hospital may be justly proud, estab lishment
of the first training school for registered .
nursing assistants.
When Mrs. Morrey came to Wingham in
1942, she found herself with only two
graduate nurses, a cook, a 15 -year-old maid
and a maintenance man to run the whole •
hospital. To cope . with the situation, she
came up with the idea of adapting the
nursing program to train young farm girls.
They weren't nurses, they were nurses'
aides, but they did awfully well, she
reported.
They were without a doubt our saving
grace."
Russell Kelley, then Ontario minister of
health, came rto Wingham and was so
impressed bythe idea he introduced a
similar program provincially, which became
known as the Kelley Girls.
The Nursing Assistants Training School
continues in operation at the hospital today,
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