From the Border Cities Star – November 24, 1928:
This is an architect’s sketch of the new children’s wing, now going up for the Essex County Sanatorium, Sandwich, at a structural cost of $110,000.
When completely furnished and equipped, the handsome structure will represent a much heavier outlay of funds, and this is the reason why the various chapters of the Imperial Order, Daughters of the Empire, in the Border and county, will require extra receipts from the annual Christmas Seal campaign, that is to get under way next week.
Thus the worthy cause lying behind the efforts of the I.O.D.E. can be materially aided by generous returns on the part of the public for whose benefit the Sanatorium primarily exists.
“People have been so good to us in the past; we hope they’ll be even more so this year,” said Mrs. H. R. Casgratn, president of the Essex Health Association,
which operates the Sanatorium for the I.O.D.E.Under a new system supplies of Christmas seals will be placed on sale in all parts of the county, by the use of a direct-by-mail campaign. This will involve the
despatching of envelopes to a large list of people, each envelope containing $1 worth of the stamps. The returns from this campaign are expected to be considerable.In addition, the colored stamps which are useiul as Yuletide greetings, will be placed on sale by all of the I.0.D.E. chapters.
Mrs. L. A. Killen, a former chairman of the Windsor Board of Education, is listed as the first donor to the Christmas Seal fund. She has placed her real estate office in the Bartlet Building at the service of the I.O.D.E., as campaign headquarters.
Plans for the children’s wing were drawn up by Pennington and Boyde. with J. W. Leighton, as associate architect. The firm has offices in the Security Building.
Anyone have any memories of this place? It was at Western Hospital on Prince Road. I know they recently demolished some buildings at the hospital in the last few years. I always meant to get out there and photograph them, but I never did. Was this one of the buildings that was recently demolished? Help me out here west-siders.
If it is the building I believe it is, it was demolished quite some time ago, when I was in high school I believe. It ran parallel to Glenfield street and faced South towards the main building of the hospital if my memory serves me correctly. If you entered the parking lot off Prince road, it was the first building you would see on your right. It was a red bricked building and I always though it was an attractive building and couldn’t understand why they would get rid of it.
I’m not sure what that particular building Brian mentions was in it’s first days. It was called the Bartlett building and housed the nursing {RNA/RPN} students in the upper floors and had classrooms in the basement. After these students were sent to St. Clair for classes in 1972 the building was used for offices such as payroll for the staff at that site. I think the building referred to may have been at the back of the complex [before Malden Park CCC was built in 1995]. There were a few different “buildings” all joined and running back in a row from the front Casgrain and Tower buildings.
Most of those old buildings have been torn down in the last few years to make room for new children’s buildings and the new mental health building. The old linen building which sits just to the east of the Malden Park building was turned into one of the children’s buildings, classes and dorms, I believe.
Before an antibiotic was developed for the treatment of tuberculosis, the standard therapy called for rest, good nutrition and plenty of fresh air, with the stress on plenty. A friend who was a patient at this sanatorium in the 30s when he was a child, said the beds were on open porches to assure access to outdoor air. One morning he awoke shivering and discovered snow on his blanket. As an adult, he hated the arrival of winter and the memories of sleeping in the cold that it brought.
I remember when the hospital was still “The San”. Later I was hospitalized at what was, by then, “I.O.D.E.” for a couple of weeks in my teens. It was still a complex of separate buildings and I was ferried on a gurney from the main hospital to the building behind it, across an open courtyard, for an E.E.G. By the time my mother was in chronic care there in the late eighties and early nineties, it was mostly all one big building though the red brick structure to the right as you entered was still in use as offices. In good weather I used to stroll the grounds with her in her wheelchair. Malden Park was constructed during that time, originally as the long-promised chronic care hospital to replace Riverview, but the rules changed and – by the time it was complted – it was in effect a high end nursing home where my mother spent a few months after it opened until she died. It was at that time still connected to the hospital by a long, underground tunnel.
Super haunted as per a security guard that used to go through there on his rounds.
Creepy.
I think this hospital was based on the Kirkbride Plan design that began in the 19th century and mainly ended with the invention of modern day psychiatric medications:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirkbride_Plan