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The Hospital for Sick Children
555 University Avenue
Toronto, Ontario
Canada
M5G 1X8
Telephone: (416) 813-1500
The hospital is located a block south of Queen's Park off of University Avenue.
During the spring of 1875 a group of Toronto women led by Elizabeth McMaster rented an 11-room house for $320 a year. They set up six iron cots and "declared open a hospital 'for the admission and treatment of all sick children.'" Their first patient, Maggie, was a scalding victim, and came in on April 3.
"In that first year, 44 patients were admitted to the Hospital. Sixty-seven others were treated in outpatient clinics." [1]
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