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 CHEDOKE
– More than a Sanatorium
Publisher:
Hamilton Health Sciences
Author: Ralph Wilson
Price:
$35
ISBN:
0-9699735-3-X
Year: 2006
Cover: Hardcover
Pages: 280
Photos: 300 black and white
Category: Local history
The hospital community on Hamilton
Mountain
Hamilton’s
Chedoke Hospital will soon be marking its 100th anniversary
with the publication of a new book about its history.
Scheduled to be launched in October 2004, “Chedoke
– More than a Sanatorium” will chronicle
the hospital’s evolution from its roots as a
pioneer in the treatment of tuberculosis, through
its integration into Hamilton Health Sciences, one
of Canada’s leading and most-respected medical
centres.
While this is a medical story, it is not merely a
story about medicine. Rather, it is the story about
Chedoke as a self-sustaining community, and its people,
past and present – the founders, community leaders
and builders, the administrators, medical staff, volunteers,
benefactors and, of course, its patients. It is also
a story about responding to community need, adapting
to change and meeting special challenges.
For example, during the late 1950s and early 1960s,
the federal government called upon the Mountain Sanatorium
(Chedoke’s original name) to treat more than
a thousand Inuit tuberculosis patients, including
the woman pictured above, whose baby was born at the
hospital.
TO ORDER THIS BOOK, CONTACT:
Chedoke
History Advisory Committee
c/o Brenda Murray
Hamilton Health Sciences
Chedoke Hospital
Residence 37
Box 2000
Hamilton, ON
L8N 3Z5
If
ordering by mail, add $10 shipping and handling charge.
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