026. Ottawa - The History of Pediatric Health Care: The Three Children's Hospitals

Published on 20 January 2020

A very detailed preamble followed by three chapters describing the various Children's Hospitals between 1885 and present (1988). With photographs. Written by Dr. Dominick J. Conway, M.D., F.R.C.P. (C) who was chairman of the Department of Pediatrics, University of Ottawa from 1953 to 1971, Staff Pediatrician from 1971-1985 and served on the Building Committee for the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario from 1964 to 1974.

April 1988.

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Author:	Dr. Dominick J. Conway, M.D., F.R.C.P. (C)
Copyright:	April 1988
Pages:	20 pages
Document history:	Historical Language Advisory: pg 1, para 3 "...flow of cholera-infested immigrants..." pg 2, para 1 "...social scars of the impoverished and the illiterate. During these primitive and frugal times, the only protection for the "stray" child...", "...indigent children...", "...80,000 "workhouse" children and other destitute youngsters were sent from the old countries to Canada...", pg 2, para 2 "Lady Stanley...", pg 2, para 3 "...Lady Stanley resigned...non-denominational remarks.", pg 3, para 2 "...Countess Meath...Lady Stanley...", pg 3, para 3 "...Lady Stanley...", pg 7, para 4 "...unsuitable for foster home placement, i.e. the emotionally disturbed and the victims of parental neglect.", pg 8. para 4 "...the fathers now departed for foreign battlefronts and the struggling mothers unable to manage the debt.", pg 9 para 3 "...family breakdown, namely, parental separation, mental illness or simple neglect.", pg 10. para 3 "Another women's association, the Citizen's Committee on Children..."