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Le diagramme suivant illustre la mAthode : 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 1^ Public Archives Archives publiques Canada Canada r1^ ' rl. 7 AID TO PROTESTANT AND CATHOLIC HOSPITALS. OFFICIAL STATEMENT BY THE INSPECTOR OF HOSPITALS AND CHARITIES FOR ONTARIO. FALSEHOODS EXPLODED. The Truth Regarding the Matter. From the Toronto Globe, November 20th, 1893. Statements are being made from time to time, in the public press and by printed fly-sheets, as to the payments by the Government of Ontario by way of aid to hospitals and charities, which' are such perversions of fact and so wide of the truth that I think it desirable through your columns to give the public a plain statement as to the paymentii generally, and as to payments to Catholic hospitals and charities, and to other hospitals and charities respectively. The charge is made in various forms that favoritism is shown to Catholic institutions of this class, and that non-Catholic institutions of like character are treated differently and less favorably than Catholic institutions. These payments are. made under the proti- sions of the Charity Aid Act, passed twenty years ago, and which remains substantially as it was then passed. Hospitals, refuges, orphanages and other like institutions have been established and have grown up under the provisions of this Act, which applies alike to all institutions of this character. Payments are made, not upon any capricious basis, but by one definite and fixed rule, namely, according to the work done in each institution, that is to say, contribution is made by the Government to each institution upon a fixed scale for each day a patient or patients remain in the institution. Hospitals are paid 30 cents per day per patieiit for the number of days the pktiei^ remains, not exceeding 270 days. » The refages are pj^id 7 cents and the orphuiageit $ cents pi day. Besides, there is another dais, suoh as the Home for Indnrablei^ wluoh ii paid at the rate of 15 cents pei; day. In a few other cases, where the ovtsidie aid db^ not reach a oertun st^ndardf these fi^v^s are.sQpieif hat abated, bat tUere aie n^immtB (J^ Oiaa six of these aQ told. :'' 'J :a » ■.': Cl ■/i', l.i ':"" i.l I ',' i" '^'^ ^^ /^ (> « ft uftk ___ ^vtg>/V ■ :— =;=«==:- .„r..-r ^.^.-g^-. : .-.^ rsy I will give the payrueuta u);\ile under the vote for tho prt^sont year, 1893, the latest ij'.ndo. and wti'vh jiiroive the hnuvinst expenditure. Fayiuants aru made aetai annually, in .June aijd BepLohiber, to lio-pii;iis and refugee, one-)i.tlf the total amount; on each dato ; bat in the case of iMphanages the amouat.s are Iphb and are paid in one sum. The total saui paid during the present year warf $164,535.78, namoly, to hospital'^ and charities iXintroi'od by Prorestants, $101,753.65, and to tho.^o controlled by Catholics, $62,782. IS. Tho Uiimber of tiio former institutions in 1S93 ib 55, or tho latter 34, made up aa follo\'^» : Prcteatant THospitala, 16 ; refuges, '"'.'{ ; orphanages, 15 ; Magdalen aaylums, 1 ; toUl, 55. OathoUc — Hospitals, 13; refagi^s, 9; orphana^^es, 11 ; Maifdalen asylums, 1 ; totul, 34. Appropriating tho money aocoilhig to the day's work done ovRr the entif^: Kys'^em, the grant per day per inmate to hoBpitals and charities controlled by Protestants was 12.33 cent!?, while to thn institutions controlled by Romr.n Catholics it was 7,63 cents. It is a miiitake, Jiowever, to claaa either one of those institatlona a.s strictly Prote.stant ox Roman OathoHc. - All the institutions controlled by Protestants receive .la inmates CrathoUcs as freely upon their application as Protefebants, and, on the other hiaid, all institutions claHsed as Catholic teoeivo ProteBtt'.nta as freely upon their appUcation as Catholics. As the attack is aimed against payments to Catholic hospitals paitioularl^,' I give you tho proportion of CatlioUcs to Protuntante in each of tho&roportion to tLoir population are greater in number than Protestant in-stlt-^tlouB, and iliat more Cathoiios in proporliou to their numbers, as per th- ' ^''•'''^* wcre-so, 'c if Sppr. i>^ndefl, th.^n do Proteafaufc '''hurohes as bujift. * 'J^^e/rict'f'Atr }i(f.srt\4f. avv'-ctoiWy t,«.anii.ed, inspections aro freqatUDtly .*nd careifully in '(1 \ ^ s ii it '. l( V made, and th*? returns maJo by the infititutioos are duly Bworn to, and payments are made up(iu thosH inspectionfl and upon tho sworn returns in all oasen to .Protestanc and Catholic inHtitutions alike. Some of the statemonti, of the AfalCg correspondent are so ovi'iently made with the intention to jiiisload, and are such gross perversions of fact, that t think it desirable to answer them. • " In 1871 there were eight Catholic charities, and in 1891 there were 3fi." In 1891 there were 28 Catholic charities, and not 36, as alleged. •'In 1871 the Oatholic hoapitals and charitiaa received from tho Government but §5,400, and in 1391 they got $56,315." Catholic hospitals and charities in 1891 received 148,893.25, and not .§56,315, as alleged. ...nMu.ni'he public hospitals of Ontario in 1891 only received from the Government $60,000; Catholic institutions, $56,315." ; 1? The truth is that in 1891 the non-Catholic hospitals received $86,008.09, instead of $60,000, and the Catholic hospitals, as before stated, $48,893.25, instead of $56,315. A IkllSLBADINa STATaMENT AnSWKBED, l^y," In 1881 there were 33 Protestant hospitals and charities that received aid to the amount of §34,000, or $22,000 leas than the OathoUcn got." f,-,;i.i.jtThi3 atateraent is meaningless. If 33 of the amiiler Protestant hospitals and chari- ties havo b«eu singled out as receiving $34,303, there is no sense or justico in the com parison. Small hospitals and charities, or hospitals and charities d jing but little work , do not, of course, receive as much as larger ones, or those doing large work. A com - paiisou, therefore, of the sums paid to the 33 small Protestant hospitals and charities, with the total sum paid to the Cfetholic hospitals, which include large and small, is, as I have said, meaningless, and is designed to convey a. falsehood. It would be easy, indued, Lo pnik out a number of the smaller Oatholic institiftions, and show that tlicy received i^'iiiutely loss than some of tho large non-Catholic ones, but the comparison would bo as stusiiJess au'I tnWy as that made by the Mail's correspondent. "No Preaoyterian, MetLodiet or Baptist institutions are on the list for Government Aid." Wby f Simpiy because Presbyterians, Methodists or Baptists, as sucli, or on behalf <)£ iheir churchps, have not built such aistituHo.ms aud asked to have ihcm placed on i-ho list. The (ioverojuumt does not of its own motion place any hospital .ipon the li(jt, but only upon application. Tf, however, application is made, and the institution com- pli(*8 wir)) tho statute, it Ls placed on thB list almost as a matter of couiae. When Pres- byioiians, Mtithodists or Baptists build hobpit-ils or jhariJ'os, and manage them, and bring thorn within the purview of the Act, and 3,T>ply to havt-^ them placed on the iiat, they will moat cortaiiily he placed there. ill the mean time (he member^ of these various church boa ion prefr.r to usu public hoapitals, which bv oUe -.ray are managed by boards largely composed of Presbyterians, Ab;thcdiat& and Bapti ;tc (jcher churches, for iuHtance the Church of England, have ijj.iilutipUL^ .slrictly their own upon tJin b'gt, anA receive fdd in the ordinary way. Catholics and Protestants alike 'jiust evpend their owu itiouuy in erecting buildings and in oquippinc' them and laanagiag them before they can apply to the Government to havo them pla''ed n^on the list. '.^he figure.s i^iven by tlio correspondent or by the fly-shept have not been taken from thi' printed reports nor from tho public accounts, nor do they represent, eitiier in whole or in pait, the actual distribution of the Parliamentary vote for hospitals and charities. It is impossible to conjecture from what ?;ource these iigurf < havo been deri^^ed ; they are neither true iu subataaco nor in fact. They seem to have been selected aud falsified for tbo CKpresa purpose of making out a pojitical case. Additions have been made, ou the onn h«nd, to the Catholic payraeutj,'and on the other the payments to Protestant indititu- tioaijfiivo either been omitted or improperly given. Jjf't me quote again : l.'he Uouae of Providence, in Toronto, under the Sindficid Mucuontdd Gcvrtrnnent fcOt ouly $;J2U; under Ma Mowut they got $10,976." I The snm aotually received by the House' of Providence in 1891 was $10,307.13. Why did not the JiaiTs correspondent add that ip the aanae year Toronto Hospital received $23,417.77 7 The House of Providence was paid for the day's stay of patients in the refuge and in the incurable ward, which is of a hospital character, and its work similar to that performed in the Incurable Hospital. It would havo been in point had the Mail's correspondent been able to establish that this service had not been rendered. This important fact, however, he does not even allude to, much less controvert. The present Act was not in force under Sandfiold Macdonald's Qovernment. At that period the aggregate Parliamentary vote was small, namely, $40,260, as against $1*34,992 in 1891, and $164,636.34 in 1893. No one institution, whether Oatholic or Protestant, received nearly as much under the old law as under the present Act and the vote of the Legislature thereunder. Both the Hospital and the House of Providence have during the past twenty years been greatly enlarged. I think I have shown that there is not in substance one statement of fact in the foregoing quotations that can be relied upon. The figures are practically taken from a little fly-sheet called " Facts for Protestant Electors," and are invented for the express purpose of deceiving. They are designedly untrue. Should Thbrei be a Limit) Wheth?** the Act should fix a limit to the number of hospitals is another question, and one for the Legislature to deal with ; whether it should prevent the mi^tiplication of hospitals in small towns and cities is also a quesv'^n for the Legislature to consider. In the foregoing I have treated all hosp tals other than those that are under Oatholic control, as one cIjmq, a^d |hose hospitals under Oatholic control as another class. There is no other way of classifying them. All alike receive Catholic and Protestant patients. Catholics prefer in most cases to resort to their own institutions. Protestants, as a general thing, prefer to resort to those institutions controlled by Protestants, whether called Protestant or general. Protestants certainly resort to them and use them as fully as though th^ were strictly denominational hospitals — the boards of control and officers in nearly every case being wholly Protectant or largely so. One more quotation of a general character : "In 1871 there were but 26 hospitals and charities receiving aid from the Government, and in 1891 there were no less than 88." The true number of hospitals and charities receiving aid in 1871 was 24, and in 1891 80, but let that pass. Most persons look on an increase in the number of hospitals and charities as a contribution to' civilization and Christianity, and that a law which encourages people out of their own moneys to build and equip them is doing a good work for the relief and comfort of the pbople. To cite, therefore, the work done under the law by philanthropic people as something to be stigmatized shows the virulence to which political rancor may reduce some men. The sum voted to aid in the maintenance of all these institutions, while substantial, is not in the aggregate a large one, and perhaps does more good, relieVes more misery, and secures more comfort to the poor, the suffering and the afflicted than any other vote of like amount contained in the annual appropriations of the Legislature. ItoaoMTO, Nov. 18, 1893. T. F. CHAMBERLAIN, Inspector of Prisons and Public Charities. rag « 10,307. 13. >ronto Hospitftl itay of patients r, and its work a. in point had been rendered, vert. tment. At that lainst 1134,992 as much under 'eunder. fioth .rs been greatly > of fact in the ' taken from a for the express >ther question, u^tiplication of consider, hat are under I another class. in most cases er to resort to t or general. Y were strictly ery case being it 25 hospitals ) less than 88." ^as 24, and in er of hospitals b a law which g a good work under the law ence to which ile substantia), more misery, my other vote I to Charities. ifilM lib