University Health Network - Academy of Medicine Collection
Category
Archival
Military Medicine
Classification
Archival, Images
Military Medicine
Archival, Military
Accession Number
1974.4.72
Description
Monotone staged promotion original photograph depicting three war veterans and one instructor working in a rehabilitation woodworking shop; each holds a different tool such as a saw or plane, holding the item with a metal clasp for replacement hand to attach hinge on wooden box held in a vise; text…
Monotone staged promotion original photograph depicting three war veterans and one instructor working in a rehabilitation woodworking shop; each holds a different tool such as a saw or plane, holding the item with a metal clasp for replacement hand to attach hinge on wooden box held in a vise; text is handwritten in white ink; veteran is wearing a World War I military uniforms without tunics, one with a Scottish cap.
Hand-printed: "MILITARY SCHOOL, O.S. & P. // HART HOUSE // TORONTO CANADA"; on reverse: "183"
Permanent Location
Storage Room 2005
2005-2-2 Box #1
Temporary Location
With MHC Education Program “Spare Parts” stored in Rm 2017
Dimension Notes
Length 25.2 cm x Width 20.3 cm
Copy Type
Original
Reference Types
Websites
Reference Comments
Brittany Wade, “#PTHistory: The Beginning 1917-1919,” Physical Therapy, University of Toronto: https://www.physicaltherapy.utoronto.ca/news-events/pthistory-beginning-1917-1919/
Edward Shorter AND Susan Bélanger, “Old School: Remembering the First War,” University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine: https://medicine.utoronto.ca/magazine/article/old-school-remembering-first-war
Research Facts
In 1917, the Military Hospitals Commission took over the University of Toronto’s Hart House and turned it into the Military School of Orthopaedic Surgery and Physiotherapy. It was created in order to provide physical rehabilitation to soldiers wounded in World War I, and to train a force of specialists in this area. By 1919, 250 students had become Hart House Graduates of the six-month physiotherapy course, which included training in massage and electrotherapy, muscle function training, and gymnastics. In 1918, a ward aides program was created and women volunteers were taught how to retrain injured soldiers in a vocation. Hart House was under construction at the time so the program was forced to move into tents in 1919, and closed shortly after.