Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 14, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba 4 Winnipeg free june inadequate meals major Gripe against guest Homes continued from Page 1 guest Home rates in Manitoba Are somewhat below other even though mental health rates were raised May 1 to Between and depending on care in spite of some serious cases of the poor Quality and meager quantities of food served remain the major with Taylor Esti mating that 10 per cent of guest Homes and boarding houses fail to provide adequate Taylor recalled one Home Spon Sor who decided she was no longer going to be serving lunch because she afford she want being paid so the client have any could have no had to buy her own sugar the client had to buy her own Coffee and was still eating a grossly inadequate she White cited another Case in which a Landlady was found using dishes Only slightly larger than bread plates to limit food served Koolard and Kraft dinners for supper a lot of people do that kind of thing to save Esther Home finder for Deer Lodge recalled one Case where a patient was brought in from a guest he was almost Manour he was confused and take care of his own i think it was probably Slop he was Gill said of the food served by the guest Bonnie health coordinator at a Community health said some guest Home sponsors spend a lot of Money on but still provide inadequate people Are getting something like or pork which Are very and no she though a More common food was not the Only Howe nor the most the free press has obtained a list of 30 substandard Homes compiled by White last it details the following complaints one Landlady water off at 6 residents forced to stay in eat separate use separate no furniture holes in floors and ceilings in one House a Dingy room no sitting area in another a guest Home in North Winnipeg had no Wash Basin in bathroom so the list goes suspected of beating patients White said one guest Home opera Tor was suspected a year ago of beating and she had seen some with bruises and Black but the charge was difficult to especially since none of the tenants would corroborate in some ways its almost analogous to beating because these people have spent 15 years in the Back wards of Selkirk mental Hospital and there released into the she on massive dosages of there terrified of going Back to the Hospital and that the threat that always used against saying if you step out of Back to the room condemned a room in jacks Board and room hotel for old and poor people on main which was subsidized by provincial government Money condemned by health inspectors in Halls and washrooms in the hotel reeked of urine and other a hotel spokesman admitted the building also had Boult of the health sciences Centre said jacks had been used for Hardtop lace but no i personally saw cockroaches and a tenant of the hotel was admitted to Hospital last month in really bad he haunt eaten any Boult its such a Good idea a fantastic idea but i cant believe that a government subsidized place would be allowed to deteriorate that she John spokesman for management which manages blamed the hallway doors on two one of whom went on an alcoholic the other was said to abused we Are probably housing the har dest to House of anybody in the he for the most have Fellows that nobody else they get thrown out of the they get thrown out of the Bell and North Ern Well always have a building that Lyons justification of conditions at jacks appeared to be an accurate assessment of the Tay Lor explained that some Homes listed As substandard continued to stay in opera Tion because they Are the Only places willing to accept some types of a some patients hard to place you put them in better Homes because they wet the were careless with their urinate on the when you try to close the theres nowhere else for these people to she even though the Homes Are take people nobody else will Kamal whose wife operates guest Homes at 210 Ruby Street and 475 Spence said he threatened to sue Hospital social work ers after they stopped referring patients to his they recommended others not do so he Malaker acknowledged there had been but he said he and his wife invited social workers to Check the House for despite repeated he said they didst show one social workers concern was for a resident who had lost a lot of before the doctor could even say that this mans loss of weight was due to the social worker involved told everybody this is due to said the doctor said this reflected badly and unfairly on his wife operation of the he said the Hospital is invest in just i might take Legal Malaker said because of the social workers she is subject to frequent phone Calls and ques they phone me what is the Story a you have i am so ashamed even to say Imma in really literally How this could happen to decent peo ple John and Millie who have had vacancies in a Home at 423 Kingsford Avenue since said they also thought they had been blacklisted by but have not been told who charges Between and for room and said his rates Only barely meet his costs of his wife said a month would be just Fine and would allow them to hire a full time a plate of cold a thin slice of canned two cookies and cold Coffee was to be the dinner of a resident at one guest former Home finder Susan White inset and others poor meals Are not the Only problem plaguing the mental health placement some guest Homes rated social blight continued from Page 1 admitting the problem in some guest Homes and boarding houses is a social blight that certainly int Sherman said we just dont have the answers the investigative work done by the free press is certainly useful As re source Sherman said in an the provinces guest Home Resi dents include the Post mentally ill social allowance people with alcohol pension ers and there has been no attempt yet to rate the Homes according to standards or to identify residents who receive some form of assistance so Cial Home care or assistance for the Post mentally ill the he no direct assistance the guest Homes and boarding houses dont receive any direct Assis Tance from the Sherman said the possibility of some provincial subsidy to upgrade Stan Dards would be studied along with other Sherman told the legislature Para sinks suggestions for licensing Bor Ders on a massive bureaucratic inva Sion of an area thus far left to private its a pretty Complex and massive thing to try to bring under the Rooming House business How do you bring it under control without a huge and costly bureaucratic machinery he said in an worthy programs must be funded from his departments he Community residences would solve the problem for people who Are mentally ill or but solve the problem for social allowance recipients or who either by Choice or limited income live in Rooming he listing conditions outlined in the free press including the Sale of one resident in a guest Home to another guest Parasiuk said despite the Raissez Faire attitude of this govern is he Sherman not concerned that citizens of Manitoba Are subject to that kind of condition in the private sector he Doest want to regulate nip plan not acted upon who has questioned Sher Man several times in the past three months on government policy on regu lating guest accused Sherman of taking inventory instead of acting on the former nip governments 1977 plan with the Tity for provincial Stan Dards and licensing and municipal in in the face of demands from Parasiuk and former nip health min ister Saul Miller seven Oaks and Saul Cherniack Johns for regu standards and Sher Man said As soon As you set you invite problems those that dont meet standards have to be then those people will be out on the Street better the Devil you know than the Devil you while some Are channelled to such he Many by to live in who Are we to Tell them to get out because this particular facility Doest measure up to standards on Johns Avenue or seven Oaks ave nue or Academy Road at City Ernst Independent citizens election committee Grant Mill promised Council he would again press the province for he told Zuken the City has urged the province to clarify jurisdictions since promising to Contact the health min ister within a he if the province Doest act quickly Short try and bring Forward our own regulations and but he questioned whether the City had Legal authority to act without a nod from the Zuken presses for action this didst satisfy Zuken labor election who pressed for immediate action on an emergency we should now Check into without giving up negotiations with the Ernst said later that existing civic fire safety Laws didst apply to guest the bylaw the City would introduce would address proper wiring and placing of fire fire exit doors and other building Stan Dards which the City could mixture of meats found in beef taken from various Saskatchewan and Alberta retail grocery Ott Tets and moot worm not say which stores stat res rather than pure of Char Are under Way in other in pork was fwd 39 to 49 per cent of Grond beef samples Tram stores the began when the Federal department food nearly Haff of the my Immis from stores in Ottawa contained meats other than an sampling of Gonod beef was then final ill attn of the provincial ii res Trkja Temh we be Given to the depart ment of Justice which Wil decide on possible cons Wner affairs minis Ter Warner Jorgenson told told opposition Leader Howard Lawtey in the Fegte Latare cat crony that the province has no immediate intention to locate stores Roe Utekal product and Stop it Jorgenson told reporters the pork additive was discovered at the processing not in retail the minister said he didst know the quantities of pork involved and suggested the mixture Coal have occurred by Accident if a Plant had switched to beef after grinding in Federal consumer affairs minister Allan Lawrence said the investigations findings do not yet War rant any Legal Lawrence said the Survey was based on 200 samples and he would want a larger Sample taken before taking any Strong clean up their Lawrence said the findings of his department Are disturbing and show the retailers should clean up their the minister said the first results Are disturbing and that bringing it to the attention of the Public amounts to a massive warning to the Industry that they better clean up their he said court action would not be Likely unless the government could prove that there was a concerted Effort to pad ground beef with pork and that top management was his department had served warning to the by publicizing the that they bet Ter mend their tests to determine the amount of pork contained in the ground beef Are also being department offi Calsin Ottawa the names of the Ontario stores Selling the beef containing pork were not fund total tops continued from Page 1 Telephone line at donations 48 Trigwell Bay 1652 Edmonton lovers of children Portage la Mcclure 31041 Cumberland Colin Campbell chapter 91 Cormorant fur Gale 324 total to Flora wants support for developing nations Mac Donald Cut dependency Paris external affairs minister Flora Macdonald urged major Indus trial countries yesterday to continue efforts to assist developing but cooperation with developing countries must have Public support in our miss Macdonald told the organization for economic cooperation and in her first ministerial speech in an International miss Macdonald concentrated her remarks on relations Between developed and underdeveloped the Paris based Recd includes All major Western industrialized miss Macdonald urged Recd Mem Bers to consider encouraging More Grants in private Capi Tal for developing to exam Ine proposals for helping developing countries Cut their dependency on imported Oil by using renewable Energy skylab forecast revised Washington the space Agency reported yesterday that the news Roundup huge skylab space station now is expected to fall to Earth Between july 7 and july that is a narrower period than the july 4july 28 forecast made last thursday in the National aeronautics and space administrations weekly re port on the demise of the biggest Man made object in former nazi doctor fined Berlin a former nazi doctor who was alleged to have injected gasoline into the veins of jewish concentration Camp prisoners and sent others to the Gas Chambers was fined Marks the equivalent of 100 in absent a the Aribert Ferdinand has been sought by West German police since when he disappeared from his Home in the City of where he had been practising since the end of the Sec Ond world pigs deaths pigs Are dying of pneumonia at an alarming rate in southwestern a veterinarian with the ministry of agriculture said we know of a fellow with 500 pigs who in the last three months lost More than 50 and Hes in said Harden of agriculture officials said 150 Farmers have reported the disease to the min Strys Centralia Tyaack said the Westinghouse Deal was in the final stages when the news broke that the embassy would be burial plans secret los Angeles burial plans for John Wayne remained secret but there were reports his family is consid ering a roman Catholic service since he was baptized a Catholic the weekend before his Public tributes continued yesterday including plans to dedicate in Waynes name a Wing of the Hospital where he fought his final Battle against Canada losing contract nuclear Plant bombed Toronto the Star says Canada is on the verge of losing an Generator contract with Libya 200 jobs the decision to move the Canadian embassy in the newspaper quotes Frank president of Westinghouse Canada As saying it looks As if the Deal is Spain terrorists bombed an unfinished nuclear Energy Plant in Northern Spain yesterday for the Sec Ond killing one Plant Workman but apparently causing no damage to two big a Small group of gunmen eluded tight Plant overpowered three workers at the Plant outside hid an explosive charge near a Turbine and police 32 feared dead in floods Jamaica floods fed by heavy Rains from the first carib bean storm of the Hurricane season have killed at least 32 persons in Jamaica in two Days and More Are missing and feared police said damage is estimated at More than million and hundreds Are rats uncover marijuana Monrovia rats gnawed into diplomatic bags in the customs office at Monrovia Airport and uncovered a consignment of marijuana Worth More than police seven pouches containing the drug arrived from Nigeria several Days addressed to the romanian embassy in police the embassy has denied All from the mews be faces ;