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Records from the Charles Camsell Indian Hospital [graphic material and textual record] (R227-240-4-E)

Bilingual equivalent

Registre relié des admissions [document textuel]

Date(s)

1946-1951

Place of creation

Canada

Extent

Scope and content

Item consists of a bound "Admission register" from Indian Health Services, Dept. of National Health and Welfare that was used at the Charles Camsell Indian Hospital. The register is a ledger with the following fields to be completed for each patient admission: hospital register no., key index number, whether admission or re-admission, patient name, postal address, agency, band, birth year, age, sex, religion, tuberbulous or not, dates of admission and discharge, total days of treatment, result, and remarks. Not all fields in the register were completed for every patient. The handwritten entries in the "key index number" field of the ledger usually contains either a number or one of the following notations: D.V.A. [Dept. of Veterans Affairs], Indian, Staff, R.C.A.F., Eskimo. Other entries for this ledger field include but are not limited to: Imperial Oil, Red Cross, civilian, Dept. National H&W, N.W.T., D.O.A., O.T., O.P., outpatient, D.V.A.M., White, Hobbema staff. In a few instances the postal address recorded for a patient is a residential school. The "remarks" field of the ledger frequently contains one of the following entries: X-ray, X-ray (P.O.W.), X-ray & exam, pneumothorax, pneumo, PNX. Other occasional entries in the "remarks" field include but are not limited to: fluoroscope, sed rate, checkup, PNP, dentist, rash.

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Copyright belongs to the Crown. Credit the Library and Archives of Canada.

Finding aid

5 -1

Creator / Provenance

Health and Welfare Canada.

Additional information

Source

Government

MIKAN no.

4166171