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  • Title: A divine mission: Elizabeth McMaster and the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, 1875-92.
    Author: Young J.
    Journal: Can Bull Med Hist; 1994; 11(1):71-90. PubMed ID: 11639375.
    Abstract:
    Elizabeth McMaster was born in Toronto in 1847. Like certain women of her class she sought meaningful volunteer work outside the home and, in 1875, with great drive, determination, and religious zeal led a committee of women who founded the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto (HSC). The Ladies Committee managed HSC for 17 years but, when the hospital expanded in 1892, transferred control to a Board of Trustees. McMaster completed a nurse training program in 1891 and then assumed the position of Lady Superintendent. It was through the newly legitimized nursing profession that she sought to maintain her influence in the hospital. However, her career as Lady Suerintendent was short-lived due to irreconcilable differences with John Ross Robertson, Chairman of the Board of Trustees. This preliminary study, based on minutes of the Ladies Committee and HSC annual reports, describes McMaster's role in the early development of HSC. It provides a case study illustrating the active role of women in the late nineteenth-century humanitarian movement and information concerning developments in the hospital care of the sick poor.
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