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A word .on health care
SYanleyMartin, former chairman of the Ontario
Hospital Services ,commission; and now an upper
•level officia!ofthe Ontario Department of Health,,
is worried about health care, costs. $o worried, in
fact, thathe has warned both patienkand doctors
that there will be a crack-down.on use of hospital
' •beds.
Mr. Martin is right. Insured hospitalization.has
sky -rocketed the patient population in every
hospital in Ontario. The cost; in premiums and
taxes, isstaggering-but not in any way surprising, v.
Many interestedpeople, both lay and professional,
'forec.ast this very situation well in advance of the
introduction of the hospital care pan in the years
prior to 1966 -When it was started.
Mr. Martin's. remarks place the blame for the
present situation on the patiients and their doctors.
We cannot agree that they are solely to blame for a
problem which might have been forestalled by°
adequate planning 10 or 15 years ago.
There is a small percentage of hypochondriacs
who actually enjoy the attention they get in hospital.
The vast majority of us, however, don't look
forward to this sort of vacation and when the
• necessity does arise we like to make out' stay in
hospital as short as possib/e.
It is, therefore,. the decision"'of the attending
physician on which hospital population is based. If
the doctor says, "Stay here •for another week,"
most of us do as we are told. Thusthepublicand the
health authorities pin the prime responsiblity for
oriercrowded hospitals `on the doctors. Before we
comderr rethem out ofhand it would be wise to look
at the reasons which motivate the physicians.
For the past20 years or more the family doctor,
partictrlarrly-• •rn • rbral- ommunitles, _ has been
handling a tremendous work load. Shortage �of
• medivl school graduates has meant that •the
average doctor has been forced to look after two or
three times as many patients as did his counter
parts in pre=war Ontario. Sheer lack of time makes
itimpossible for the farhilyphysician to go around
from house to house, treating patients in their own
beds. The only feasible, .answer to the doctor
shoe tage••ha s-,been-to•bring• the• patien ts- -to- a- c eri'trarl
point -the community hospital.
F
Jiisiariy> by the. theatre .ona
my.way too word today, I saw' the
movie title "Swedish Fly Girls"
on the rargiies. I don't -know what
Swedish FIN/Girls are unless•thev
are 'young mothers and
• housewives who also hold down a
nine -to -five job a'nd have to he on
the go all day..
And as the ,car sped• around the
ur
If provincial health au• thorities had been
sufficiently foresighted 10 expand educational
facilities for doctors 20 years ago the shortage
need never have occurred.
Another means of providing less expensive
health care lies right in the lap of the Toronto
officials. They refer repeatedly to the overlapping
and duplication on the part of hospitals and the
services they provide-- yet hospita! staffs and
governors are all well aware of the tremendous
waste of time and high-priced help on the part, of
health care officialdom. • .
Inspection `teams are followed by inspecting
'consultants, Hard on their heels come
accreditation teams, and dozen and ones other
"experts" who poke, and pry into every nook and
cranny of hospital operation, Not only are these
teams composedof highly-paidpersonnel--man•ii of
them are doctors occupying jobs which could as
well be performedby trained lay people. Then the
doctors could get back to the important work for
which they we're educated.'
There' is a limit to the amount .of information
obtainable from any one hospital and most of it is
supplied through the mountains of'ffaonth-by-month
reports which have to be sent in to Toronto. Why,
then; are the facts not fed into a central'computer
so that the inspecting teams could stay in thi'ir
plush city offices and punch the buttons to find out
how each hospital•stacks up? The inspectors wou/d
save thousands of hours oftimeand hospital staffs
could'get on with the really important aspect of
their job -caring for the sick,
A. staring example of the inspector complex was
a "role study" carried out in Huron -Perth area
.within the past two years:- Despite;: the tales of •
information which have been accumulated over the
years in Toronto the hospitals in these two
counties, along with OHSC, had to share the cost of
a total indepth survey by a firm of outside
consultants- to learn nothing that was not already
,known and recorded. .
There ,is pressing need to reduce health care
costs. The first move is obviously t� return some
of the chiefs tothe ranks of the Indians. — VIlingham
Advance -Times 1
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.rt1.,:,tMrN,Mr.,,A�.+1WMWiIM�M
Woman to Woman
With Shirley J. Keller
a
,:tear or lose the .a,occasional
picture. When that happens, it is
always the, picture we have
promised• faithfully. to return -
and for that reason, we no longer
promise to return any picture. We
only say we will "make every
effort to see tha-ty-ou get -it -back -.'
After last week's epistle on
weddings, I certainly hope that
y•'
LIoni Club ado
ts
New son is only five
Goderich pons CIO_ have
adopted five-year-old Eddy-Quirni
of Ecuador.
By contributing, $17?c'a month
through Foster Parents Plan of
Canada, The Lions Club gives the
Child and the family material and
financial" aid aimed at
strengthening the family unit by
helping each ni mber. -Thechild
• is. symbolic of aid given, to the
entire family.
•$efore The Lions Club became
Eddy's Foster Parents, the
family struggled ta, survive on an -
income of, .$64.00 rnonthry. This
income is earned by Eddy's father
working as a bus driver. Most of ,
the family's rneals consist of
• meat, seafood, cheese, flour,
plantain,µ yucca, and vegetables
and milk', Eddy and his family live""
in their own home which they,.
built. It is made of brick walls,
wooden floor, and a zinc roofing. .
They do not have running water
and it must be obtained From a
near by, public faucet, The home
does have electricity. •
The,Lion's Club's contribution
of $17 a month brings the family a
monttily cash grant, distribution
• of gopds such as vitamins,
blankets, towels,..soap and other
useful items, meelical and dental
care:111e' sustained giiidande and'
counseling of social workers and
thebenefit of special programs. A
strong emphasis. is placed „on
education. All Foster Children
(and their brothers and sisters if
Possible) ,must attend `school:
Vocational traming courses given
or s pported -by PLAN in some
coup •ies are available to Foster
Children, their brothers and
sisters and in sortie cases, their
'parents. The airn is to give each
member of the far lily the tools to
help tfiernselves become
independent and self-supporting.
Special programs adapted to the
needs of each country also, rneet
these aims.
In Ecuador, for example. PLAN
social workers have special
guiiianc•e and counselling
sessions ,for adolescents to help
there deal with adjustment
problems.
Foster Parents and Foster
AR,. +R H 11 R ',
Children correspond monthly
(letters are translated by. PLAN)
.and often develop warm and
.affectionate relationships which
'itilan as m ch to the child as the
material:ad financial aid.
Foster Parents Plan°is.
currently working in ten
countries in South America and
Asia. Over 53,000a children are
currently being aided by
individuals, groups and families
in the U S Canada and- Australia. i,
For more information on this non-
profit, non-sectarian, non-
political independent
organization. write Foster
Parents Plan of Canada, 153 St.
Clair Avenue West, Toronto 7,
Ontario.
Clads are easily grown
(iladiolii are one of our finest
cut flowers. In addition they' Tre
verreasy to grow; even the novice.
gardener can grow them with
success, says D.B. McNeill:
horticultural specialist; Ontario
Ministry of Agriculture and Food.
They will grow in almost any
soil, hut in clay, the addition of
organic material, '.will greatly
improvelneir'perfgrma0e•,
" Gladiolii are primarily used as
cut flowers, and are best planted
in rows, staked and trained to
produce long, straight spikes..
The truths can he planted as
. soon as the _ground is warm.
• usually between May 15 and June
1. They should be planted in a
trench 4 to.6 inches deep. T,he
"trench should be half-filled with
soil at planting .time and the rest
added gradually •as the' spikes
grow. Since well -grown spikes
can grow to a height of five• feet,
good anchorage for the Toots is
necessary.`
For show gladi•olii, broadcast .a
complete fertilizer before
planting and at intervals during
the summer. Then sit -back and
enjoy the results. '
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ideas and summertime highlights
to Or readers.
That preceding little bit leads
in nicely •to the following article
which comes to me regularly
from New York's Information
Ceirterorr the Mature Woman, The
organization's scope is throug1i
health and medicine econdfnics •
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q e: treart;fhe-questierr "fare- ..-more-.__Goderic1r _ and—dist'rict',-.' sociology and psychology all
y o u. ever played weekend ' brides will take advantages of the pertaining to women, of cour
roulette?" ,in one of the glass Signal -Star's offer to publish your This one has to do with woman
cases outside the theatre. As far' wedding • •stories. FREE OF executives and suggests" that
as I'm concerned, of course. CITARG.E. many of, them "face
weekend roulette wouldn't be any 'And once more, may I remind discrimination'', Since becoming.
more enticing than roulette any you that we DO NOT publish' editor of The Signal -Star about a
other time of the week, but for wedding stories and pictures year ago','" f' v e • noticed
.§.P. e;, who knows:'.,_ .whiGli°ar-e.ov-er oneatnonth old. The discrimination in only the most .
Anyway, all this made me t'hi'n1t reason? We take enough ribbing subtle ways -- little, hard -to -put-
* • back to a conversation I had not about our paper being a review. your -finger -on ways which really
too long, ago with John Lyndon, andnot a news sheet! There is no leave me surprised and
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me, •quite bluntly in fact ttu t sex - the bride; and groom have, been Anyway, I thought you 'might be
and violence movies are ' wha,'t i settled into the household routine interested in,the following article
pack the house these days in, his fora couple of months — and may — geared for women — which,
theatre. • already have . had numerous although it has an American
Re's had some excellent quarrels and a couple of in-law flavor, smacks of truth here in
.# "family filr'n" offerings which' rifts. Canada, too. Read on .., and enjoy.
have just "bombed nut" as the So often — more often than , Although many women try to get'
saying goes. And as any modern necessary — the photograph - ahead by concentrating on the so-' ✓
businessman can attest, you have seems to be the stopper.. called "female" professions, one
to give the people what they want if Let me say again. Simply- fill reached thelop by seeking. "the
you are going to stay on top these out your wedding form supplied by kinds of jobs that women are not
days, • 1 the Signal Star BEFORE the .expected to have," She's Ersa
• 4 • And apparently, sex and wedding takes place, give it• to • Poston, ,president of New York
violence are what the moviegoers your photographer' the day of the State's civil service commission
of North America want, because wedding and instruct him to send -and holder of' the `highest civil
. that's about all that is coming out the picture and the form to us. service job in that state.
of the movie -making studios these Chances are', your wedding will „ Commissioner Poston notes
days. People who are a little more appear in the newspaper before that most managerial jobs, both in
.discerning about their you've returned from your government and in the private
entertainment find it difficult to , honeymoon - while you are still sector, are invariably controlled
`Select a movie right now, which is
worth the admission price and
doesn't find you slumped down in
your seat, ashamed to he
associated with the production on -
the
n -the screen.
Itis getting on towards the end
of the school year,and it is time to
think about graduations, Of
course, ' many university people
have already donned cap and gown
• for the i'estivities but there are
still others who have yet to walk
that proud aisle:
kr I "would Iike' Ito have this
opportunity to remind all of you
that The Goderich Signal -Star
publishes FREE OF CHARGE the
photos and graduation pictures of
local and district g'rau t s. We
'enjoy getting this type ornews —
and are only toe pleased to print it
in our newspaper. •.t
One caution, however. We
„cannot guarantee to return to you
your graduation photo.* We make
every,effort to do so, but because'
Of the number of stages the
a -photograph must go through and
the number of departments ".it
visits before it is finally printed--
in
rinted"in the newspaper -,.and. -because
. mistakes do happen even t lough
our stains as careful as any staff
can possibly he we do mark or -lb o t h ' y o urn g people w i 1 I ' Please turn to Page 61T
d it
on Cloud Nine. by men.
• That's news to us....and under ' "A qualified woman can't get
those circumstances, we'll near them;" she says, "unless
publish a full-length, absolutely the man doing the hiring i•s
complete wedding story and terribly liberated himself.".
picture without hesitation, - In most cases, when a man
I expect this will be the last rather tlia.911 a woman is selected
week I'll bellthe Signal -Star on a for a high-level job, she adds,
full-time basis for a while. Many "you'd have a devil of a time
of you have probably seen Miss trying to prove it was
Lynda MacGillivary around town discriminatory. It's so ~very"
with a camera and noterbpok the subtle. Yet it happens all the
last few 'weeks. Well, Lynda is a time."
journalisYh graduate of Fanshawe Ersa Poston knew from the
College in London who' has come start that she'didn't want to be put
to the Signal -Star to help ;out for in anyof those
the summer. "patronizing
feminine kinds of positions" in
The situation is this. i decided
it might be nice to have some civil service; she says. "I wanted
time -off this summer to spend'., to be treated as a professional,
with my family and to''get ca.. ht But I realized, as I worked my w,ay
up on some of the things I've up the managerial ladder, that I
neglected for the past few•months _ had to keep proving I could handle
And since there were so many the requirements of the job, as
students out of work this summer, any new boss would."
I decided to 'help myself and a "We women executives are
student at the same time..•often accused of spending half our a
. time with, frivolities," Mrs,
I will be working Monday:,Poston observes. "When I first
,Tuesday and Wednesday of •each
became „iyivil Service,
weep. For the refnainder of; the
week, 'Roil Shaw and our new gal Commissioner, 1 was shopked to
discover thh
Lyrida,will�be habdlingmost�of the rhea thought I'd have''
relyortin and' photographic my :stiff do all int work, while 1 .
duties. Young and imaginative,' spent most of my time at the "
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it the Berkshireurser` genuine its 34 �o
No, 'that's not a
teacher's score.
34 out of 39 is really the number,
of nursery kids in Miss Dorothy's •
Berkshire Village Nurserywho come from
, warm cosy homes heated by natural gas, ""
And that's, not far from
the average for all the rest of London, too.
Where 77% of all homes
and apartments have clean efficient
natural gas for heat, or hot water
or appliances. ' - • - or,
And when you've been
working with a pairttl rush all motnirig ...
that's trnrtant,
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