Annals – Hotel Dieu Hospital Kingston - Founded September 2nd, 1845, Volume I, (1845-1937) - Page 12 (detail)

Annals – Hotel Dieu Hospital Kingston - Founded September 2nd, 1845, Volume I, (1845-1937) - Page 12 (detail)

Extract from the Annals of the Hotel Dieu Hospital Kingston describing the first patient at the hospital and the conditions during the first days of the hospital's operation.
Entries in the Annals were written ca. 1917.

The entry reads: "On Sept. 7th, they received their first patient, a very sick woman. And after that gradually others. They were obliged to refuse patients, the accomodations being so limited. A Woman’s Ward and one or two small rooms, one large room or Ward for the orphan girls. Miss Perras insisting the homeless little orphans should find a shelter in Hotel Dieu. The Foundresses, our predecessors in Religious Life, were obliged to sleep in a ward so small they would knock against each other in dressing."

St. Joseph Region Archives of the Religious Hospitallers of St. Joseph, Kingston, ON

[ca. 1917]

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