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The document is a historical account titled 'The Struggle to Serve: A History of the Moncton Hospital, 1895 to 1953' by W.G. Godfrey, detailing the evolution and challenges faced by the Moncton Hospital over nearly six decades. It includes various chapters covering significant events, changes, and the hospital's impact on the community, supported by extensive research and acknowledgments of contributors. The book was published by McGill-Queen’s University Press and is available for download.

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The Struggle to Serve


A History of
the Moncton Hospital,
1895 to 1953
w. g . g o d f r e y

McGill-Queen’s University Press


Montreal • Kingston • London • Ithaca
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© McGill-Queen’s University Press 2004


isbn 0-7735-2512-2

Legal deposit first quarter 2004


Bibliothèque nationale du Québec

Printed in Canada on acid-free paper that is 100% ancient forest


free (100% post-consumer recycled), processed chlorine free.

This book has been published with the help of a grant from the
Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada, using
funds provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Council of Canada. Funding has also been received from the
Marjorie Young Bell Faculty Fund at Mount Allison University.

McGill-Queen’s University Press acknowledges the support of


the Canada Council for the Arts for our publishing program. We
also acknowledge the financial support of the Government of
Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development
Program (bpidp) for our publishing activities.

National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Godfrey, William G., 1941–


The struggle to serve: a history of the Moncton Hospital,
1895 to 1953/W.G. Godfrey.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn 0-7735-2512-2
1. Moncton Hospital – History. I. Title.
ra983.m58m65 2004 362.1′1′09715235 c2002-904897-4

This book was typeset by Dynagram Inc. in 10/12 Sabon.


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To my son K.K.,
Born at the Moncton Hospital
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Contents

Figures ix
Acknowledgments xi
Map xiii
Illustrations 135
Introduction 3
1 “Into the Hands of the Ladies” 12
2 From the Almshouse to Respectability 31
3 Continuity with Significant Discontinuities 62
4 At the Crossroads 93
5 An End and a Beginning 147
Conclusion 179
Appendices 187
Notes 191
Bibliography 221
Index 236
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Figures

1 Populations of Westmorland, Kent, and Albert counties


and the City of Moncton, 1901–1951 43
2 Number of patients by residence, 1905–1953 44
3 Residence of private and semi-private patients,
1913–1953 96
4 Residence of public/ward patients, 1913–1953 96
5 Per diem patient cost, 1898–1953 97
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Acknowledgments

The Moncton Hospital was first incorporated in 1895 and this study
originated as a centennial project of sorts. First suggested as a possible
student project by two people closely linked with Moncton Hospital –
Joan Allain, nursing educator, and Dr Victor McLaughlin, a long-time
medical staff member who is now retired – it has grown into consider-
ably more. Support and encouragement were received from many but a
special few must be singled out. The hospital librarian, and archivist by
default, Sue Libby, provided outstanding co-operation. The staff of the
Provincial Archives of New Brunswick was, as usual, extremely help-
ful, particularly Twila Buttimer, who first guided me to the Moncton
Municipal Records. At Mount Allison University, my greatest debt is to
one of my honours thesis students, Colin Smith, who spent a summer
labouring in the archival sources available at the Moncton Hospital.
Colin produced a preliminary overview entitled “The History of the
Moncton Hospital, 1895 to 1954,” as his honours thesis in 1996. This
reconnaissance in strength convinced me that, if matched with other
primary sources and systematically applied to the existing hospital lit-
erature, sufficient sources were available for a detailed and balanced
academic history of the hospital. Colin will probably not recognize the
direction I have taken this study, the quite different questions raised
and sources consulted, but his work constituted an excellent starting
point. Two other student research assistants, Tianna De Benedetti and
Deanne Fowler, plowed through newspaper and government record
sources on campus at Mount Allison, and I very much appreciate their
diligent and thorough efforts. Aurèle Parisien and other members of the
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xiv Acknowledgments

McGill-Queen’s University Press staff were consistently patient and


helpful, while Lesley Barry’s editorial work was outstanding. My ever-
supportive wife, Rhianna Edwards, contributed her genealogical exper-
tise and census knowledge to pull together names and occupations
while also painfully and patiently reading the manuscript in order to
help with the construction of the figures and the index. I am also in-
debted to Acadiensis for permission to publish material that first ap-
peared in that journal [27 (autumn 1997) and 31 (autumn 2001)].

Pictures and illustrations appear with the permission of the Moncton


Hospital, Moncton Museum, University of Toronto Press, Nimbus
Publishing, and Patricia Winans-Orr.
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Thorburn, Politics in New Brunswick, 2


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The Struggle to Serve

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