PART FOUR: The Institution: Ontario Hospital School Orillia, 1936-1974

2. Role of Government Inspectors: Testimony

3. Life in the Huronia Institution
   Confinement and Curtailment of Freedom
   Segregation of the severely retarded
   Fire Hazard
   Passes and ground privileges
   Elopement
   “What’s Wrong At Orillia: Out of Sight, Out of Mind”
       - Pierre Berton’s Expose, Toronto Daily Star, January 6, 1960:
   Overcrowding and underfunding

4. Punishment and Cruel Treatment at Huronia
   Rubber punishment
   Testimony of mother volunteers
   Benching
   Psychological Suffering
   “Side” Room or “Punishment” Room
   Cage-Cots
   Wet-Packs, Cold Baths, Straight Jackets (Restraints) and Sheet Restraints

5. Sexual Abuse at Huronia
   The Willard Report 1976
   Physical and Psychological Humiliation
   Sterilization, Drugging and Medications
   Chemical Sterilization of Females
   Drugging Patients

6. Patient Labour at Huronia
Boys and Men: Labour
Girls and Women: Labour

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PART FOUR: The Institution: Ontario Hospital School Orillia, 1936-1974

PART FOUR: The Institution: Ontario Hospital School Orillia, 1936-1974

Thelma Wheatley

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