Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 23, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba Family ponders Legal action Over death at Misericordia by Maureen Brosnahan the family of a woman 65, who died at Misericordia Hospital last month a Day after being asked by a nurse to clean up food she had spilled on the floor is not satisfied with a Hospital report into the incident and May seek Legal action. Joe and Ilona Smith of fort Garry complained to health minister l. R. Bud Sherman after mrs. Smith s Mother Frances Sutch died in Miseri Cordia May 27, weeks after she was admitted for internal Hemo raging. Sherman had asked the Manitoba health services commission to look into the matter and a Hospital report was forwarded to Sherman s office. The health minister said he is satisfied the woman received proper treatment in the Hospital. But Smith Sale he s not satisfied and plans to see a lawyer today what has the Smiths upset is an. Incident which began when the woman is reported to have pushed her lunch tray away spilling her food on to the floor. The attending nurse requested Sutch s help in cleaning it up. Sutch died the following Day. The family says it feels the nurse s action was detrimental to Sutch s health the Smiths said that Sutch was weak and vomiting blood and was barely Able to get out of bed when the incident occurred. The Smiths said they Learned of the incident shortly before Sutch died when the nurse took mrs. Smith aside and told her what had happened. Mrs. Smith said the nurse broke Down and tried to convince her that making her Mother clean up the food was proper procedure and was done As a lesson to the elderly woman. Sherman said As a result of the report. He has received he is satisfied the Dent was thoroughly investigated and proper procedures had been carried out. It is not by any stretch of the imagination unusual that persons Are encouraged to help participate in things they have caused to Sherman said. Hospital administrator Ted Bartman said Sutch was prone to throwing her food around the room. But the Smiths said it was Only a single occur Ance. The Smiths said they were never told the cause of death and no autopsy was performed. Bartman said the investigation is Complete although the nurse involved was not questioned. He said she May be interviewed when she returns from holidays. Bartman said he was not aware of the problem until he was contacted by the health services commission which asked for the report. Fosh signs and displays lid. 943-8471 510 Margrave St. Best wishes Centennial packers Ltd. On the opening of your new Winnipeg Branch. Centennial packers Ltd. For the opening of your new Winnipeg location from your friends in the . Cup systems inc. Carol Stream in. Congratulations Centennial packers Ltd. We Are pleased to have been associated with the design construction of your new Plant. Wallace Akins limited general contractors engineers Magnus Johnson architects Scouten Mitchell Sigurdson consulting engineers Prince Charles dons wetsuit for dive to warship Mary Rose. Winnipeg free press tuesday june Charles uncovers skeletons Portsmouth England a Prince Charles skin dived to the wreck of the 16th-Century warship Mary Rose yesterday and spotted the skeletons of some of the Crew members a fellow diver said. The heir to the throne explored the Tudor ship with former King Constantine of Greece in the solent a waterway leading from Portsmouth to the English Channel. The Mary Rose Pride of King Henry Viu s Fleet Sank with 600 men aboard in 1545 during a Battle with the French. Charles 32, is president of the Mary Rose Trust fund which is seeking million to pay for raising the wreck to the surface and exhibiting it in a ports Mouth maritime museum. The Prince came face to face with the remains of the Tudor warship and some of its Crew on too dives 12 metres below the surface. On his second dive he was accompanied by Constatine who makes his Home in England. It went very Trie Prince told reporters. I enjoyed it very a companion diver Margaret Rule archaeological director of the Mary Rose said he is a natural diver very Cool and Calm. The visibility was about 10 feet. Prince Charles touched the wheels of gun carriages and the keel and saw the skeletons of some of the Crew. Last time he was Here he found a Skull he seems Good at finding dead last year a diver died during a visit to the wreckage which rests on the sea bed about one nautical mile from Portsmouth. The Mary Rose built in 1509, was discovered in 1967 and is of great interest to historians because Little is known about the construction of Tudor fighting ships. 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Committee chairman John Angus told Nome the ongoing control that Council would have Over the program was the question being asked most frequently by councillors. Angus said Council has been told it would retain control Over implementation by controlling the purse strings. He said councillors have been told they will be Able to debate program expenditures every year when City funds Are allowed for the five year project. Norrie questioned by Angus Angus however said there is nothing specific in the proposed agreement Between the City province and the Federal government to allow the City input once the document is signed. Norrie told the committee the Council would have significant he agreed the budgeting of funds is one Means of control. He added that Council would also have a say through its participation on the Board of manage ment which will be created to oversee most of the Day to Day Workings of the Core area initiative program. Angus also questioned Norrie on the possibility of an amending formula being written into the Tri level agree ment. Then if after a year we All collectively feel we have made an error regarding a specific project we can change Norrie replied there was already an amending formula. He said changes could be made if All three signatories to the agreement consent to revisions. Coun. Alf Skowron expressed concern that the three Levels of bureaucracy especially the Federal level will bog the project Down. He said in his experience the Federal bureaucracy had acted As a stumbling Block on other projects. He asked Norrie if he could Point to anything in the proposed agreement which would ensure the bureaucracy would t slow the program. Norrie said he could t give such assurances but told Skowron the Federal authorities had shown an openness and a willingness to co operate throughout the year of negotiations which came before the unveiling of the program earlier this month. The Core area program is currently before the standing committees of Council and Community committees which will report Back to Council in july with recommendations and pcs in Assiniboia nominate Nordman Winnipeg coun. Ric Nordman was acclaimed the Progress Ive conservative candidate for Assiniboia Riding in the next provincial general election. Assiniboia is currently represented by cultural affairs minister Norma Price who is expected to run in the new Kirkfield Park Riding created by changes in electoral boundaries in effect for the next election. Kirkfield Park covers the Westwood area while the Assiniboia takes in the extreme Western part of the City North of the Assiniboine River including North heading Ley. In other nominations last night provincial government education consultant Gerald Lecuyer beat out Richard Greenaway a Canadian National railways employee for the nip nomination in the South Transcona Riding of Radisson. In Brandon West druggist John Allen will carry run for the conservatives in the next election. Allen won Over Jim Thornborough a lawyer. Brandon West is currently held by minister without portfolio de Mcgill who earlier announced he would not seek re election. Last thursday Peter Fox was acclaimed nip Candi Date for Concordia constituency in East Kildonan. Fox has been the member for the area for 14 years ;