BUILDnq^GS. 



The hospital building which had been in use since 1875, 

 had during the boom years been found quite inadequate to 

 the grooving requirements of the city, and in 1881 a t^empor- 

 ary location and building in Point Douglas had been pur- 

 chased from the Dominion Government at a cost of $5,000, 

 to be used until the old building could be moved from the 

 hospital site and a, new building erected. 



In addition to subscriptions of citizens to the building 

 fund, the board received from the Hudson's Bay Company 

 $2,000 ; from the C. P. P. a similar amount and from the 

 City Council a special grant of $5,000. A mortgage loan of 

 $25,000 was incurred. After the usual troubles and vicissi- 

 tudes attending on building opjerations at that time, the new 

 hospital, costing $63,115.95, represented at the present time 

 by the general and administration buildings, was opened 13th 

 March, 1884, and was a great boon to the sick and suffering, 

 as well as to the attendants, as the Point Douglas building, 

 although roomier than the old hospital, was not even so well 

 suited for hospital purposes, and on account of an outbreak 

 of smallpox within its walls in May, 1882, tlie patients had 

 to be accommodated in tents on the prairie around it. 



EQUIPMEISTT. 



The increased number of surgical cases made it neces- 

 sary at tliis time to purchase a complete set of instruments, 

 which was done at a cost of $762, 



MEDICAL. 



We have yet one more step in advance to record. A 

 number of medical practitioners in Winnipeg, including 

 nearly all the attending physicians at the hospital, having 

 taken steps to establish a medical school, application was made 

 by the faculty for permission for the students to attend lec- 

 tures, surgical and clinical, in the hospital. By-laws were 

 passed December I7th, 1883, regulating their fees and pro- 



