Winnipeg General Hospital School of Nursing - Blue and White Yearbook (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada)

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BLUE AND WHITE CLASS OF 1923 Wings, Administration Building and Power House were com¬ pleted. In 1918 the Psychopathic Hospital, the first of its kind in Canada, was built, bringing the total cost of extensions throughout the period of the war to $430,000. The hospital, as it stands today, has a bed capacity of 600, providing accommodation for all classes of the community and caring for patients from parts of the country hundreds of miles distant. In addition 100 to 200 patients are cared for in the out¬ patient department daily, and from 3,000 to 4,000 are yearly dealt with in the Social Service Department. The Training School for Nurses was organized in 1887 and graduated its first class of six nurses in 1889. Since then the Nursing School has grown by leaps and bounds in order to meet the need created by the increasing bed-capacity, the growing demands of nursing education and the growth of the many and varied fields of nursing service. The class of 39 graduating this year will bring the total graduated since the organization of the Training School to 754. Many of this number have become outstanding figures in the nursing world through their progressiveness, devotedness to duty and ability for leadership. During the Great War 132 served overseas; four made the supreme sacrifice; 18 were awarded the Royal Red Cross distinc¬ tion and two the military medal. Now and then from near and distant parts of the country one hears reports of others who have graduated from the W.G.H. Some are in the public health field, some doing institutional work, some private duty, others teaching; and all are faithful and zealous disciples in the great cause of health, each one contribut¬ ing her bit, doing her share to build up a healthier and happier Canada. —J. H. Page Eight

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BLUE AND WHITE CLASS OF 1923 Jntrotiuctton 0 | HE history of the Winnipeg Genei’al Hospital dates back as far as the year 1871. At that time Winnipeg was but a little village with less than 300 inhabitants and the Province of Manitoba in its early infancy. The only means of communication with the great world outside, was the somewhat rickety old stage coach which journeyed between the little village and Minnesota, a distance of almost 400 miles. It was not until after the close of the first Riel Rebellion, when an influx of settlers arrived in the middle west, that the real need for a hospital was felt. On the 13th of November, 1872, the hospital was organized and in May, 1875, provincial letters of incorporation taken out. The first building occupied by the hospital was situated on the northwest corner of McDermot and Albert and two or three months later the hospital was moved to a house behind the Bank of Montreal. ji Five other different houses were in turn occupied by the hospital before a permanent site was obtained. This was a little plot of land about a mile west of the Red River, donated by the Hon. A. G. Bannatyne and Andrew McDermot, and on it the first building was built with space for sixteen public and four private beds, and a small operating room. After the beginning of the construction of the C.P.R. a large number of settlers began to arrive, and lack of accommodation forced the removal of the hospital to the larger space in the Dominion Immigration Hall, purchased at a cost of $5,000. On this property the first building of the present group was commenced in 1882, and formally opened in 1884. In 1888 a Nurses’ Home and Maternity Department were added, and an isolated hospital was built in 1892. Several other additions were made between this and 1917, when the present East and West Page Seven

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SLUE AND WHITE CLASS OP 1923 MISS M. MARTIN Present Superintendent of Nurses MISS POWELL Former Superintendent of Nurses DR. STEPHENS, Superintendent of Winnipeg General Hospital Page Nme