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It all started in 1922 in an old house in Newmarket How many desolate creatures on the Earth Have learnt the simple dues of fellowship On August while the world mourned the death two weeks previously of Alexander Graham in Newmarket All in ail it had been a headline- making year Mussolini seized power in Italy and James Joyces con troversial Ulysses was published in Paris Southern Ireland had become free Egypt had become a kingdom and Turkey a republic A man called made the worlds first cocktail But on the lives of the tens of thousands of people in an i surrounding Newmarket century than any other event of 1922 For the little business was the York County Hospital and as It grew floor by Floor and wing by wing it became inextricably bound up in the lives of the people of and Sutton and Bradford so much so that after awhile it was known simply as the hospital Perhaps because it is a shelter for naked emotion for the joy of birth for the agonizing suspense of a fight for life for the grief of death a com munitys hospital is its greatest of its golden anniversary can look back on plenty of that For more than five years after it opened in the house across from the firehall York County functioned as a private institution of only six beds Then on October 1927 the site was switched to the corner of Davis Drive and Prospect Street where a Originally the west wing con tained the emergency department the labitory and the radiology department Now it has a 24bcd medicalsurgical nursing unit the employee health service the phar macy morgue and locker rooms The south wing of the hospital the one thats partly hidden from the street side entered service March 24 and the bed capacity reached has the operating The latest addition It contains a new and expanded emergency department radiology and lab a new cafeteria and the maintenance shops And an additional beds to boost the hospitals total to 256 The process never stops because the demand for service and the need for reassurance only keeps in creasing Now administrator EW Boeder and the man board of directors the chairman is Lawrence S Rubin planning for the next expansion It A nearby house was purchased as a nurses residence in June of the following year and on January l 1946 the hospitals bed capacity rose to 55 with the opening of the socalled west wing more formally known as the Margaret Johnston Davis Memorial Wing will shortly in April Size brings its problems and no one is more aware of those problems than Roeder Planners foresee computers looming large in the future of North American metropolitan general hospitals to the extent that they may even become involved in the movement of patients but Roeder says he is determined that mechanization will be kept to the irreducible minimum We must sec to it that we relate to the community in a personal sense he says in a detailed assessment of the hospitals future elsewhere in thus special supplement Thats where many hospitals fall down They become big and impersonal and they churn out supermarket health care Specifically he opposes the large- ale to a ted reduce In another sense the hospital is becoming more of a people place every year and the statistics tell that story the story of service to the community that Roeder prizes so highly For example between 1967 and the number of patients admitted jumped percent to 1 from Births were up one operations twothirds and visits to the emergency department the bums and poisoning pour in from an area larger than that served by all the huge teaching hospitals of Metropolitan Toronto In fact only roughly onequarter of all the patients treated in came from Newmarket itself Now if you guessed that Newmarket contributes more patients than any other municipality youd be right But can you guess which place ranks second Its Township from which citizens seeking help of one kind or another last year Aurora is third with 1744 East fourth with and Simcoe fifth 891 The other contributing districts in descending rank were Whitchurch Stouffville King Richmond Hill and would you believe it way over west of Highway sent patients Obviously theres more to the attraction than the most relaxing music for miles around or the warmth of a lobby decorated in beige and orange with striking prints on the walls A more significant clue to this sort of popularity is a simple thing like the dazzling white of the uniforms worn by the orderlies People particularly city people become accustomed to perspiring hospital personnel spor ting daubs and stains and smears But not at York Countv Yet if you draw this to the attention of an orderly he looks down at himself as if seeing the uniform for the first time and then he replies half in embarrassment and half in pleasure Well they just give us enough uniforms I guess and they make sure theyre laundered call I doctors have suffered heart attacks where they can be monitored ceaselessly until they have recovered sufficiently to be moved to standard care It has a self care unit for people who of renal failure or to diabetes under control I find bigcity hospitals says Shelah Morton during a coffee break In smaller dings you know everyone better and you work better together I guess you could say were just one kingsized family cold Best wishes to York for another 50 years from the community newspapers who