■vdding for tlieir conduct and supervision wMle in the hospital. 

 In 1884 then we find thje General Hospital in a much better 

 footing than it had ever been before, alike as to its finances, 

 its buildings and the management of its affairs. 



MOKE KECEI^T YEAES. 



In approaching more recent years it seems unnecessary to 

 enter into the details of the hospital's history, as its printed 

 records are available, and yet even a sketch would be incom- 

 plete without reference to the main features of advancement. 

 The hospital building was no sooner completed in 1884 than 

 the directors began to see that in the interests of medical 

 science the work of the hospital would have to be extended. 

 But burdened as they were with a mortgage debt, for a large 

 amo^unt of which some of them had become personally liable, 

 it could not be expected that they would immediately add to 

 their responsibilities. 



The Jubilee years of Her Most Gracious Majicsty, Queen 

 Victoria, always bring showers of blessings, and of these 

 showers a good many drops are sure to descend on the Winni- 

 peg General Hospital. In 1887 the dir|ectors of the hospital 

 made an appeal to the public for a jubilee fund wherewith to 

 discharge the complete debt on the hospital property. The 

 response to the appeal amounted to $14,062.95, which not 

 only wiped out the debt, but left a considerable balance in 

 the hands of the directors to undertake whatever extension 

 might be thought most desirable. 



SCHOOL EOR N'URSES. 

 The hospital had, up to this time, been indebted to outside 

 sources for its su]3ply of nurses, but in order that the nursing 

 staff might be increased and a number be available for send- 

 ing out to city and country, a school for nursies was opened in 

 1887. To prO'Adde proper accommodation for these nurses 

 when off duty, a home was found to be a necessity. This 

 home became an established fact in ISTovember, 1888, and its 



