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i HIS year the Women's Institute Officer-5' : Conference at Guelph was for convcncrs .3 ome Economics and Health and converters Resolutions. Of the eight hundred women riding, the great majority were having ' first experience at this annual conference 7 a they came from all over the province t to the farthest borders. 1‘. J. A. MacLachlan. President of the On- 0 Agricultural College and Dr. Margaret ready, welcoming the visitors, said they is they would send their sons and daugh- to the College as students. Dr. Mac- hlan outlined the courses in Agriculture 7 f- o-year vocational course for boys or girls a hing to stay on the farm. a course which addition to practical agriculture lI‘lE'ludt's 1ish, public speaking, debating. civics to man to take his place in the community; 3 a four-year degree course. “Even if the duates do not go back to the farm, most i em go back to the farmer in such work caching Agriculture in high schools. serv- g. as Agricultural Representatives. or work- ,for such commercial firms as machinery. " and fertilizer manufacturers." the Prcsiv ‘ said. Dr. McCready thanked the Ins-ti; for their scholarships given to Macdonald 'tute students and announced the Adelaide diess Trust Fund of $6700 set up by Ber- Hoodless, son of Adelaide Hoodless. Dr. ‘ ready spoke of the fiftieth anniversary of gdonald Institute to be held on June 13. paid a tribute to Dr. James Robertson. :4 time dairy instructor at O.A.C. who, along Mrs. Hoodless, had interested Sir William V donald in contributing $75,000 toward 3 establishing of Macdonald Institute. '55 Anna P. Lewis, Director of the W0- ' '5 Institute Branch and Home Economics ice. and the Extension staff, presented Ell I953 Personalities at the Officers' Conference: From left to right: Miss Anna P. lewis, Director, Women's Institute Branch and Home Economics Service; Mrs. J. H. McCulloch, Secretoryâ€" Treosurer, F,W.I.O.; M o l h e r Mary Adele, Dominica, B.W.l.; Mrs. J. R. Fulclier, Honorary President, F.W.l.O.: Mother Mary Alicia, Dominica; Mrs. Milton Weber, Provincial Con? vener of Home Economics and Heullh; Mrs. R. G. Purcell, President, F.W.|.O. The Officers9 Conference a skit on Extcusion work. Copies of the script written by Dora Burke may be borrowed from the Loan Library. Health in Ontario A high light ol‘ the conference was an ad dress on “The Health of Ontario" by Dr. Muc- kinnon Phillips. Minister oi Health. "Ontario pioneers in in new llcld ol‘ hospital care psychiatric words in ecnerul hosin tats", siiid Dr. Mockinnon Phillips. "ln certain forms of mental illness, if We get our patients between the ages til 15 and 30 or even 35, and treat them in thcse psychiatric words in ecu- cral hospitals, We can prevent more serious 1roulile and save lhc prohnhlc need of care in a mental hospital in later life." Already these psychiatric words have ill'l'll pul in eight general hospitals: more will he added until we have one lwvuty-becl unit for every two thousand population. Another project of the Ontario Department of Health is to provide hospital care for mentally retarded children. Until rcccnlly the hospital at Orilliu took only children from six to sixteen years of age. Now special units have been added for children of two to six ~ [50 beds at Orillin and 150 in the new hospital :it Smiths Falls. Dr. Phillips also paid a tribe Iltc to the Minister of Edllcolion, Dr. W. .I. Dunlop, for having school auxiliary classes extruded to take in children with an IQ. low- M“ than the standard heretofore required but which still makes it possible to teach and rehabilitate them into happy. useful living. Dr. Phillips brought the good news that in the Ontario Mcntul Hospitals last year. out of evcrv [00 patients admitted during the year. fit) were discharged. cured. within the year. On the question of hospital cart- for indigent patients and for all patients. Dr. Phillips said: “In Canada we have three ClIISSCH or people: 7