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In 1832, an Act of Parliament named a commission to "superintend and manage the erection and completion of a hospital in or near the town of Kingston." This news could not have come at a more opportune time, as the region was hit hard that same year...
As two of the priorities of the 15-year plan, the Central Heating Plant was completed in 1921 and a City-funded but hospital-run isolation hospital building for patients with infectious diseases was completed on King Street opposite the new heating...
On the morning of Christmas Eve in 1897, fire broke out in the St. George's Ward of the Watkins wing. One of the orderlies, preparing the wax to polish the floors, spilled turpentine on an open flame, igniting the fire. The fire hydrants were frozen...
1890 was the starting year for Kingston's churches to hold annual "Hospital Sundays" whereby churchgoers were asked to donate funds to the hospital. This tradition continued well into the late twentieth century.
By the 1880's antiseptic practices had been adopted and the surgical field was expanding. As medical care became more specialized and complex, its practitioners began to realize the immense benefit that trained nurses had to play in improving patient...
In 1831, spurred by epidemics of malaria and cholera in the late 1820s and early 1830s, which saw the Female Benevolent Society run off its feet, a Kingston citizens' meeting was held to "take into consideration the building of a public hospital." At...
In 1901, the hospital had its first elevator installed in the Main building.
The Nickle wing opened in April 1891. It was named after William Nickle, a local businessman, who died in 1890 and left $10,000 in his will for the building of a wing that would be dedicated to the treatment of infectious diseases. The wing was built...
In 1905 the hospital's School of Nursing graduated 15 nurses with 14 more graduating in 1906. By the turn of the century, nursing school graduations weren't complete without a graduation photo. The hospital's photographer of choice for years was H. H...
In 1932 Kingston was selected by the Provincial Health Ministry to be one of three Ontario sites for a radio therapy institute for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer which was formally opened on March 3, 1933. The provincial government supplied...