The Canadian nurse . nd ofknowledge. Miss Dodds replaces Miss Mary Mac-farland who recently retired from the posi-tion after many years of devoted service A community birthday party in tribute toa beloved public health nurse had, as itsguest of honor. Muriel Rice who is on thestaff of the Temiskaming Health Unit inOntario. Miss Rice began her career in nursing asa student at the Lady Minto Hospital,Haileybury, later transferring to the Kings-ton General Hospital from which she grad-uated in 1922. After three years of privatenursing, she entered the public health fieldfirst on the staff of the
The Canadian nurse . nd ofknowledge. Miss Dodds replaces Miss Mary Mac-farland who recently retired from the posi-tion after many years of devoted service A community birthday party in tribute toa beloved public health nurse had, as itsguest of honor. Muriel Rice who is on thestaff of the Temiskaming Health Unit inOntario. Miss Rice began her career in nursing asa student at the Lady Minto Hospital,Haileybury, later transferring to the Kings-ton General Hospital from which she grad-uated in 1922. After three years of privatenursing, she entered the public health fieldfirst on the staff of the Dome Mine andlater under the auspices of the Red CrossSociety, at Ontario health units in Engle-hart. Blind River and Manitoulin was followed by a period as healthnurse on Manitoulin Island, in Lions Headand Port Credit, Ont., before she moved onto Kirk-land Lake. A period of postgraduatestudy in public health nursing at the Uni-versity of Western Ontario was followedby her return to Kirkland Lake and her. Muriel Rice first association with the Victorian Order ofNurses. As a VON member, Miss Rice worked inYarmouth, and North Bay, Ont In1950 she became public health nurse inHaileybury and, in the following year,joined the Temiskaming Health Unit. Thegifts, the good wishes and other tributes ofdistrict residents indicated the general ap-preciation felt for this hard-working memberof the nursing profession. Danger and Safeguard Whatever our personal attitude may be,we must face the fact that mass organizationof medical care is the logical and inevitableresult of modern social development, and bydefinition it is the public health system thatrealizes this mass organization. But let us not forget that in itself anyorganization, and certainly one of a scale asseems necessary here, tends to reduce humanindividuality to a cypher. It would be foolish to try to curb thetechnical development in itself; the laborerswho destroyed the first steam-driven factoriesdid not strik
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