Providing care during hard times

From 1929 to 1935, the impact of the Great Depression was certainly felt in a city as dependent on industry and manufacturing as Lachine. During this period, the number of visits to the sick at home (3,280) and to the poor (1,700) increased significantly. In a report on infectious diseases in the 1930s, Dr. Sylvio Roch indicated a rapid decline in the cases of scarlet fever, measles, whooping cough, typhoid fever and tuberculosis while the incidence of rubella was growing. 

A shared ward between 1930 and 1937 Archives of the Sisters of Providence.