Report of the Ontario Health Survey Committee.

  • Ontario. Health Survey Committee.
Date:
1950-1952]
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Credit: Report of the Ontario Health Survey Committee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ies Additions to present accommodation is being built or is planned for London, Hamilton, Kingston and Toronto, while a new 250-bed psychiatric hospital is also planned for Toronto. As for tuberculosis, treatment facilities appear to be adequate, with more than 5,200 beds available. A new 155-bed sanatorium in Sudbury was built in 1952 with the aid of $450,000 from the Provincial Government. All persons attending x-ray surveys conducted by the Department of Health are now being x-rayed free of charge. A 30-cent fee formerly was paid on behalf of each patient by the local voluntary agency, but the Government cancelled this charge. In 1953 the Ontario death rate from tuberculosis was 6.5 per 100,000 population, an all-time low, and the lowest among all Canadian provinces. The death rate has dropped 70 per cent in the past 10 years, and the decline in incidence of new cases in the same period was 13 per cent. During the same time, Ontario's population increased approximately 21 per cent. A new feature of the fight against spread of tuberculous infection is the hospital admission x-ray program. During 1953 approximately 325,000 patients were x-rayed upon admission to general and public hospitals. The appropriation of money for the construction of an Ontario Institute of Radio- therapy in Toronto which will, when completed, cost between five and six millions shows determination on the part of the Government to help the fight against cancer. These are only a few instances of the efforts being made by the Ontario Government, through its Department of Health and its Department of Public Works, to carry out suggestions in the Health Survey Report and its own ideas as to how the health of the people of the Province can best be cared for. 14-5-54