Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV NURSING IN NEW CONTINENTS Collaborators: M. Louise Lyman, Canada; Alice R. Macdonald and Ellen Julia Gould, Australia; Hester Maclean, New Zealand; Margaret Breay, Africa. Canada.--In making a study of hospital and nursing conditions throughout Canada, we are confronted with a great difficulty--the lack of a general scheme of vital statistics and reports. Statistics are provincial records only, and are mostly recent and incomplete. We have, to refer to, the decennial census which takes us back to 1901. There is no Bureau of Public Health, and the health agencies of the Federal Government are scattered in the various departments so that information relative to hospital or nursing matter can be obtained only from individual sources and research. In the earliest days of her history and throughout the French regime (1535-1759), Canada was indebted wholly to the religious orders which came out from France for the establishment of hospitals and the care of the sick in their homes. Some record of the heroic and perilous lives of the hospitalifres has already been made in our first volume. The early French hospitals of which we find authentic records are, in chronological order, as follows: St. Jean de Dieu, founded in 1629, or shortly after, at Port Royal in Acadia (now Annapolis); no longer in existence. L'Hdtel Dieu du Precieux Sang, at Quebec, founded in 1637 by the Jesuits and taken charge of later by the Augustinian nuns from Dieppe, as related," is still in existence on its original site. L'Hdtel Dieu de Saint-Joseph of Montreal, founded by Mile. Mance in 1642 and completed in 1644; still in existence. The Hospital for Hurons, founded in Sault Ste. Marie in 1642 by the Jesuits and nursed by them until it was burned by the...
