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CIRCULAR LETTER 
 
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 His Grace ihe Archbishop of Toronto, 
 
 — TO THE — 
 
 CATHOLIC CLERGY OF THE CITY. 
 
 Eev. and Dear Fathers : 
 
 We deem it our duty to call your attention, and the 
 attention also of your people, to the recent action of the City 
 Council Executive in refusing the allowance hitherto given for 
 the treatment of the sick poor in St. Michael's Hospital The 
 reasons given for this hostile action rest on foundations of 
 saiid. One member spoke against sectarianism in the public 
 dealings with the Hospitals. " Sectarianism" is here doubtless 
 meant, for distinctive religious beliefs and ministrations* 
 Now, if the teachings and ministrations of the Christian faith 
 are at all times of the greatest moment to man, if the consola- 
 tions and hopes and the sustaining influences and graces 
 which the Christian religion imparts are at all times of 
 priceless value, surely they must be of infinite importance 
 and of inestimable value to all, but especially to the poor, in 
 the time of pain and suffering, and amid the sorrows and 
 anguish and fears of the death bed. If public charity should 
 always be given not only in a spirit of impartial justice, but 
 also in a spirit of Christian tenderness and compassion, it 
 Bhould be administered with special sympathy and kindly 
 
 thoughtfulness during jthe. visitationg of^ sickness, and in a .way. . . ,y \o 
 
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that will bring most comfort to the heart anil the soul that avo 
 sick as well as to the suffering body. 
 
 Can anyone for a moment deny that for the sick C itholic 
 poor tlie ministrations of the Sisters of Charity, their Christ- 
 like sympathy for the suffering, their life-long con-JBcration to 
 the alleviation of human misery, their prayers and spiritual 
 exhortations and instructions, the hopes and the trust in the 
 merciful God their presence and example as well as their 
 words inspire, are of a value and importance that are simply 
 inestimable ? Is it kind, is it charitable, is it Christian to 
 take the jDoor that are at our mercy, and especially in the 
 dark hours of their sickness that for many may be unto death, 
 away from such blessed influence and comforting surround- 
 ings, and force them into institutions where, from the nature 
 of things, they cannot have these priceless advantages in full 
 measure and completeness '? 
 
 But, says another sapient alderman — a medical doctor— 
 *' These charitable institutions a;re mere * fads,' and were the 
 grants continued to them the General Hospital would be 
 sadly crippled." So that it is the welfare of the General 
 Hospital that must be considered, and not the interests of the 
 sick poor ; in other words, the sick poor exist for the sake of 
 the hospital, and not the hospital for the sick poor. The 
 doctor justifies his course by what, in the face of the evidence, 
 we must call false allegations and accusations. Hear him : 
 " The responsible Superintendent is not a qualified physician, 
 for it is no other than Madame de Chantal." This lady is 
 the responsible Superintendent of the institution as far as its 
 general and economic management is concerned, but she has 
 nothing whatever to do with the medical treatment of the 
 patients; and the institution has a qualified resident physician, 
 who is medical superintendent. Hence the allegation of the 
 doc' or is false, in the sense which he meant. 
 
 Again he accuses the religious nurses of the institution 
 
 this serious charge 
 
 as negligent and inefiicient, and he bases 
 
 
on the evidence of two physicians whose names are not men- 
 tioned, l)ut which he was prepared to impart privafrlf/-. 
 AVhat sort of evidence is this on which to assail the character 
 and smirch the fair fame of an important institution ? Such 
 hack-stair evidence would he hiu^hed out of a court of law ; 
 and yet it is on the strength of such testimony the puhlic are 
 asked to believe the story of the inefficiency and negligence of 
 the Sisters as nurses ! "Who are those unnamed physicians ? 
 If they exist let them, in common fairness and manliness, 
 come forward and give their names, and then we shall be ai)le 
 to estimate the value c f their testimony. 
 
 Happily for the interests of truth and for the defence of 
 the Sisters we have not to depend on the hole-and-cornor 
 evidence of nameless doctors. Here is the evidence of the 
 resident Medical Su))erintendent, and here also is quoted the 
 testimony of the Medical Staff of St. Michael's Hospital : 
 
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 DR. DWYER S STATEMENT. 
 
 Editor Xeiis: — In Friday's issue of your paper certaiu stateiiiei ts 
 were made by Aid. Orr concerniuj^ St. Micliael's Hosital. These state- 
 ments were made during a committee meeting of the City Council and 
 are as follows : ' 
 
 1. Tliat I am not a qualified physician. 
 
 2. The nursing is defective. 
 
 3. Tliat no advantages are given to students. 
 
 4. That patients are kept after being cured and given work to do. 
 such as cooking, etc. 
 
 T). That patients are not properly attended. 
 
 To all of the charges I give an absolute denial as follows : 
 
 1. I am a graduate of Toronto University, and a licensed practi- 
 tioner, and I am and have been the resident medical superintendent <;f 
 St. Michael's, dating from its inception. 
 
 2. We have a com])etent staff of nurses, while of their faithfuhu^ss 
 and eflici(!ucy the staff" and I iU'e the best judges, and they are fully u[) 
 to the standard. 
 
8. The Htudfiits of tlic Women's Medieval College iiavo had clinics 
 all wint(>r, and the name libtirty lias been jfiven to Toronto UniverHity 
 — a privilege which has been taken advantaj^e oi, as will be seen by the 
 cuniculnni. 
 
 4. Patients are not j^iven work to do when convalescent any more 
 than at the (leneral Hospital, where one of the i)rinted rules is that 
 convalescent patients must assist the nurses. 
 
 The fifth charge may be characterized as grossly untrue. 
 
 It is also insinuated that St. Michael's is a sectarian institution' 
 Since the opening 160 Protestants have been treated, and no distinction 
 has ever been made between denominations. This does not savor of 
 sectarianism. 
 
 Dr. Orr further states that Dr. Sheard substantiated the above 
 statements. From my knowledge of Dr. Sheard I will take the liberty 
 of doubting this. 
 
 R. J. DWYEK, M. D., M. C. P. S. O., 
 
 Medical superintendent. 
 St. Michael's Hospital, June 2, 1898, 
 
 TESTIMONY OF THE MEDICAL STAFF. 
 
 Owing to statements made concerning St. Michael's Hospital by 
 Dr. Orr, as reported by the public press, a meeting of the Staff was 
 called on Thursday afternoon, 8th June, and it was unanimously 
 resolved : 
 
 1st. That the resident physician is a thoroughly qualified and 
 efficient Superintendent. 
 
 2nd. That the nursing has been satisfactory, and the nurses have 
 been efficient and attentive. 
 
 3rd. That the Hospital has been used extensively for clinical 
 instruction by the Faculty and Students of the Woman's Medical 
 College, and tliat the Student's of the University of Toronto have had 
 the same privileges. 
 
 4th. That the management and equipment are excellent. 
 
 5th. That patients have been admitted and treated without regard 
 to creed. 
 
 6th. That a down town Emergen'cy Hospital is desirable for the 
 rece^jtion of severe accident cases. 
 
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 7tli. Moreover, tliat since Dr. Orr's statements have influenced the 
 
 public as \v(!ll as tlu- City Council i)rejiulicially to the interests of the 
 
 Hospital, we desire to contradict them, and express the hope tha 
 
 St. Michael's Hospital will continue to receive the same aid from the 
 City Council that it had in the past. 
 
 C. li. CLTHBERTSON, M.D. 
 N. WALLACE, M.D. 
 T. V. McMAHON, M.D. 
 WALTER McKEOWN. 
 R. B. NEVTTT. 
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 A. MiPHEDRAX. 
 
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 JOHN CAURN, M.B. 
 
 In the face of such overwlielmins evidence we repel with 
 just indignation the false charges and lualignant accusations 
 made against St. Michael's Hospital and the devoted and 
 Christ-consecrated women who minister within its walls, and 
 who have left the world and all that it holds dear to expend 
 their lives, for Christ's dear sake, in the service of the poor* 
 the sick and the suffering. They labour not for earthly gain 
 or human applause ; they do good by stealth and blush to find 
 it fame ; and in this materiatistic age their self-denial and 
 self sacrifice, their disinterested labours, their life-long conse- 
 cration to the great and holy cause of aiding and relieving 
 the suffering poor, in smoothing the pillow of the sick bed, and 
 raising heavenward the thoaghts and hopes of the dying, 
 deserve public recognition and commendation instead of the 
 revilings and injustices of blind and brutal bigotry. 
 
 In this connection we make bold to affirm that neither the 
 action of the Executive of the Oftty Council nor the groundless 
 reasons on which that action is sought to be justified represent 
 
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 the views or receive tbp appro vjil of the f lir-iiiinded, intelligent 
 citizens of Toronto. Tliese citizens are large-hearted and 
 tender towards the poor, and are animated by the spirit of 
 justice and fair play towards their fellow-citizens of all deno- 
 minations ; and we are very much mistaken if, in due time, 
 they will fail t:) right the wrong inllicted, and to require that 
 the sick poor shall he sent to the institutions of their choice^ 
 
 What good can this wretched intolerance and religious 
 bigotry effect? Will they contribute to the promotion and 
 ditfusion of the sweet charities of life ? Will they make the 
 social relations of our citizens pleasanter and happier ? Will 
 they not, on the contrary, serve to offend and irritate, and to 
 sting with a sense of wrong a large class of our fellow- 
 citizf^ns ? 
 
 In any case, the duty of our Catholic people in this 
 emergency is as clear as the day. We must protect, help and 
 uphold St. Michael's 1-lospital. We must aid it by our 
 sympathy, our encouragement and by monetary contributions. 
 W^e ujust enable it to keep its doors wide ojien for the sick 
 poor, wliether Catholic or Protestant. No child of misfortune 
 of any creed or color must ever be refused its sacred hospi- 
 tality when suffering from the pangs of disease. Above all, 
 we charge the Catholic Clergy of this city to see to it that all 
 our sick poor who need medical treatment shall be sent to 
 St. Michael's Hospital. There they will be heartily welcome ; 
 there their bodily ailments will be carefully and scientifically 
 treated, and their religious interests will be in safe keeping ; 
 there the holy Sacraments can be administered with the 
 respect and reverence due to them, andean be received by the 
 sick and dying poor in prayerful recollection without the fear 
 of the scoffs and sneers of unbelievers. 
 
 ''"' .*We require of the CI' rgy^to announce from their pulpits 
 on Sunday next our express desire that all our sick poor shall 
 henceforward go to St. Michael's Hospital for medical treat- 
 
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 mont, and we expect of our Clergy that they will faithfully 
 carry out our d<(sires in this respect. 
 
 '•'his circular letter shall he nnd at all tho Misses in all 
 the Ciitholic churches in this city on Sunday next. 
 
 Believe US to he, 
 
 llev. and Dear Fathers, 
 
 Your devoted servant in Christ, 
 
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 St. Mjciiael's Palace, 
 
 Toronto, June the I7th, 1898. 
 
 N. B. It is but fair to state that his worship the Mayor 
 and several Aldermen did their duty nobly by St. Michael's 
 Hospital, and the fact will not be forgotten by our people. 
 
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