Hardbound textbook with information about hygiene, illustrated; front cover is tan with decorative line drawing around the title; inside page lists the Junior Red Cross Twelve Rules of the Health Game; title is printed in green on spine; 230 pages.
Hardbound textbook with information about hygiene, illustrated; front cover is tan with decorative line drawing around the title; inside page lists the Junior Red Cross Twelve Rules of the Health Game; title is printed in green on spine; 230 pages.
Number Of Parts
1
Provenance
Belonged to donor, currently working (2012) at Kingston General Hospital as a Registered Nurse, Kidd 7 Neurosciences. Graduated from University of Toronto Class of 1984 (Bachelor of Science in Nursing); University of Alberta Class of 2006 (Master's of Public Health). Worked in nursing and health human resources in Alberta, British Columbia, and Ontario.
Printed on title page: "CANADIAN HEALTH SERIES // PRIMER OF // HYGIENE // BY // JOHN W. RITCHIE // AND // JOSEPH S. CALDWELL // WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE "PRIMER OF SANITATION" // BY JOHN W. RITCHIE // REVISED CANADIAN EDITION // TORONTO // W. J. GAGE & CO., LIMITED // 1929"; handwritten on inside page: "ANDRE BOURQUIN // ESTEVAN SASK. // VALLEYVIEW // SCHOOL // ROOM 7 // BOX 543
Permanent Location
Storage Room 2005
2005-3
Length
19.2 cm
Width
14.5 cm
Depth
4.5 cm
Unit Of Measure
centimeters
Dimension Notes
Length 19.2 cm X Width 14.5 cm X Depth 4.5 cm
Condition Remarks
Shows minor wear along edges
Copy Type
original
Reference Types
Dictionary
Reference Comments
Molly Pulver Ungar and Vicky Bach, "GAGE, Sir WILLIAM JAMES," Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Volume XV (1921-1930), http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio.php?id_nbr=8146
Research Facts
W. J. Gage & Company Limited used to be called Addam Miller and company before bookkeeper Sir William James Gage took it over in 1879. The most important line in the company was textbooks. In 1896 Gage helped found the National Sanitarium Association and in 1898 the Toronto Citizens’ Sanatorium Committee, which led to the creation in 1900 of the Toronto Association for the Prevention and Treatment of Consumption and Other Forms of Tuberculosis. Between 1897 and 1913 he established several treatment facilities: the Muskoka Cottage Sanatorium and the Muskoka Free Hospital for Consumptives near Gravenhurst; the Toronto Free Hospital for Consumptives, the King Edward Sanatorium for Consumptives, and the Queen Mary Hospital for Children. He also chaired the Toronto branch of the Victorian Order of Nurses. Of his textbooks, it was claimed that "“there is . . . not a community throughout the Dominion where the schoolbooks published by this house have not found a place.”