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One of the more facinating Practice of Medicine in Prince 1th: of Island history is the Edward Island.” development of the practice of The history “335 a great many medicine in the province. The idth who practiced he" um "Writ-“l df‘t‘m” “9"9- I from the late 1700's on to the With W011 training a! they may turn of the present century. but In“ "caved in "1059 days- is primarily concerned, as Dr. were attached to the French 11” not“. with m, mm an. army. ‘ tury.
While many old records and He stale, “prior to 1371 the" b0?“ 0‘ the 935‘ ha"? come ‘0 ‘ apparently was no legislation this Paper to 'help make the governing the practice of med- Centennral Edition a record of icine' or controlling the lice“. 0111‘ Past. Oddly enough “1 9 ing of practitioners in the prov- greatest aid in learing about jnce. we do not know what memcmefind the early doctors qualifications were required for W35 Obtained from 3 b00k pUb' a man to call himself a doctor. “Shed JUSt ""5 year- Apparently the fact that he
The Guardian and The Even- graduated from a college of- ing Patriot are greater indeht- , iering courses in medicine was
t Dr don Lea. enough." Charlottetown. for his kind per- The History notes there are mission to quote “at will" from 3 records of some who had not
but were allowed to practice on a government license.
First recorded ligislation gov- erning medicine was the Med- ical Act of 1871—it permitted those men practicing on a gov- ernment license to continue but no more such licenses were is- sued thereafter.
By that Act only graduates of medical schools of Great Britain and Ireland, graduates of Canadian Medical Schools and of certain specific colleges in the United States were per- mitted to practice here. Changes in 1873 excluded the U.S. col- leges and allowed graduates of the other three countries named to practice without an examination.
r. Lea notes that Prince Edward Island doctors appear
his excellent “History of thel completed a medical course
to have been members of the
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Canadian Medical Society since its beginning in 1867 and par- ticularly remarks the connect- ions of the late Dr. W. J. P MacMillan and Dr. I. R. Jen-
An interesting fact brought out in the History is in the following paragraph: “About 1900. when women physicians were rare everywhere. and there had never been any women doctors in practice on the island, there were seven women doctom from the Bel- fast district alone practicing in various parts of Canada and the United States."
Dr. A. A. MacDonald, who graduated grom McGill in 1902. and who has practiced in Souris since then, remembers many of the men who began practice in the middle 1800‘s and recalls many of the pract- ces of an earlier day long since discarded.
For instance, the old standby of ‘bleeding' a patient is smil- ed upon today. but Dr. Mac- Donald remembers once bleed- ing a pneumonia patient. When he started practice office calls
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The late. and oldest living practitioner in Canada at one time. Sir Roderick MacDonald— the beloved Dr. Roddie of Moron—once said he wore out a great many horses “and al- most as mauy automobiles”.
The writer of this article, who was privileged to know and admire Dr. Roddie. had several long chats with him and re- calls the occasion only a few years ago. when the doctor was in his mid-90's, he was called to the scene of an automobile accident in which a young boy
Some days later Dr. Roddie appeared at the inquest held in Charlottetown and gave his med- ical testimony before the coron- er’s jury. He also posed at a medical convention hero for a picture with the late Dr. MacNeill of Summerside. and Dr. Gus MacDonald of Souris. At the time their combined age was over 260 years.
No history of medicine here would be complete without ref- erence to hospitals and Dr. Lea did not overlook the point. He notes the first hospital-
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s 0 en . others which tollowed were not operated in the modern man- ner. For many years they hol only patients who were chron- ically ill.
The Charlottetown Hospital was the first here and was oc- cupied until 1891 when the hos- pital moved to a new building where it stayed until it was badly damaged by fire in 1921. Reconstruction took nine months and during the interim the hos- pital was conducted at Govern- ment House. A new building was erected in 1925 under dir- ection of Bishop O'Lcary. and though major changes have taken place still stands on the same site
The Prince Edward Island Hospital was organized in 1883 and for the purpose the Hazard property on Longworth Avenue was acquired. It had a capacity of 12 beds and was used until 1898. in that year a new build- ing was erected on Kentington Road and occupied until 1980 when the present hospital was opened in Victoria Park. It is interesting to note that both former structures used as hos- pitals are still standing
The building of hospitals made possible better records of oper- ations and the records of the P.E.I. Hospital for 1896 show there were five amputations of breast. two amputations of thigh, one Herniotomy, one Hysterectomy and one double Saipingo-Oophorectomy.
Expectant mothers did not use hospital facilities to any extent, in fact the first normal confinement at the P.E.I. os- pital was not recorded until 1908. The first Caesarian section done there was in 1911.
So far as public health work by government is concerned the first real step taken was in 1840 when an “Asylum for the insane" was built in Bright- on. At a later date the Falcon- wood Farm on the East River was acquired by the govern- ment for the mentally ill and a Dr. Blanchard was super- intendent in 1880.
An outbreak of infectious dis- ease in 1351 resulted in I} pointment of s Health Officer and building of a small struct- urs to serve as "Quarantine Hospital" for smallpox and typhus cases. A vaccination Act
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The standard of fashion through the years has been the hat of the ladies of that era. When the Fathers of Confederation met in Charlottetown we are sure their wivos were notfnrbohindwiththoir m gory boxes and proudly displaying the latest fashions of that on.
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on Anti-Tuberculosis Society formed. Registration of births and deaths was made compul- sory in 1907.
The first tuberculosis sani- torium hero North Wiltshire in 1915. a gift of the late Sir Charles Dalton. and the Provincial Sanitarium opened here in mo.
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“Prince Edward Island is preparing to celebrate this year the Jubilee of the First Con- federation Conference. which fortuitous event took place in Charlottetown in the early days of tsmbcr 1864.. The cele- bration will be of national im- portance in two ways, firstly as to the inception of the great idea of uniting all British Amer- ica under one government. and secondly because of the recent~ Iy changed attitude of the
of the Island province towards the union compact ".
Those words were written for "The Canadian Courier". a weekly. by Hon. J. A. Math- ieson. Premier of Prince Ed- ward Island, in 1914, as Can- Ida prepared for the 50th an- niversary of the Confederation conference.
The then Premier wrote: "Fifty years ago there was no railway connection between New Brunswick and Nova scotia. not between New Ennis- wlch and Lower Canada. nor between New Brunswick and the United States. Prince Edward Island had rail- way. Both New Brunswick and Nova lactic had begun the con- struction 1! Government rail- ways. from lsint John on the one andfrorn Halifax on
idea 1 closer political connect- ion snd free ween the Maritime Provinces of British of this
Mr. Mathieson in listed all the delegates present and noted "never before had Into been a meeting of so many eminent British American stat- esm- in are place. assembled
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the privilege of a plebiscite at that time troy would have voted .ihemselVes out of Coated-min in favor of the originally schad- uled Maritime Union. "In Prince Edward Island a feeling of bitter discontent ow up. and the union with Canada hsd cone 8 be lashed upon by many as a most - toward but irromediablo event." "GOVERNMEN OF POLITICAL PARTIES HAD BROKEN FAITH WITH . AND HAD CONFIBBBD mm FAILURE TO THE TERMS OF UNION IN THE VITAL MATTER OF OUR WINTER TRANSPORT TO AND FROM THE MAINLAND". Another indictment of Con- federation is noted in the words: "UNER IMPOSSIBLE FINAN- CIAL ‘TERMS. UNWIIIILY AGREED UPON OUR UNION DELEGATE! IN rm. THE PROVINCE VIA! AB- AILI TO B
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