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CGM - History of Ottawa Children Hospitals

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            It took a long time to recognize that children should have a separate space for treatment, the first Children’s Hospital was in 1888. “The objects were to promote kindness, unselfishness, and the habit of usefulness among children” (Conway 4). There was accommodation for 47 patients in both ground and second floor. It also included two private wards and an operating room. Due to lack of funds, the Children’s Hospital property at 199 Wurtemberg Street was then sold. The pediatric patients were referred to The Protestant General Hospital and St. Luke’s Hospital. The next few decades established an improvement for both health and welfare in the community.

            In 1901 the Salvation Army created both a children home and its own Maternity Hospital. They progressed their care as far as to create modified milk depots for infants, this included home delivery. Mortality rates of infants decreased from 270 per 1000 infants  to 171 per 1000 infants.

            The Protestant Children’s hospital was the second children’s hospital in Ottawa and had four wards with a total of 55 beds. It had three to five patients per room with a large Infants room. The second Children’s Hospital closed in 1943. The large Civic and General Hospital with over 500 beds, created room to accommodate children with 100 beds and operated active outpatient clinics.

            Soon after, the Ontario Hospital commission requested to build a Children’s Hospital that met the regional requirements of 250 children’s beds. The Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario was approved to be built on October of 1966 and it opened in May 1974.

            In history there was a struggle to create hospitals and provide as much beds for the required population. Hospitals in history were focused on establishing themselves and developing treatments and care. Children were important throughout history and recently the Ottawa hospitals came across the realization that their environment and design can have a positive effect on the quality of children’s lives.
 

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