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Public obstetrical ward at 125 Rusholme Road.

An old black and white photo of a room in a hospital showing five beds, four with patients. A nurse stands at the end of one reading a chart.

Date: 1928.

Credit: The Miss Margaret Robins Archives of Women’s College Hospital, Photograph collection, L-00023.

At the time of Peggy Beal’s death, the public obstetrical ward in the old Women’s College Hospital could only accommodate ten maternity beds. The Cradle Club tirelessly fundraised for expanded public maternity wards and nurseries, as well as for modern equipment in the new hospital that opened in the fall of 1935. The club believed that an improvement in hospital conditions and obstetrical services would lead to a lower maternal mortality rate in Toronto.