Closing the circles

The questions of the precise location and the body that would control it remained the issues, although many assumed that the Institute of Radiotherapy at the TGH would become the Cancer Institute/Hospital of Ontario and thus remain under the control of the TGH.53 In 1942, when the TGH was looking for renewed funding for its Institute of Radiotherapy, the first hint that the government was thinking [...] The trustees of the TGH felt that their Institute of Radiotherapy had developed at the TGH, with the cooperation of surgeons, and it would make no sense to break that association.54 The view of the Chair of the TGH trustees in 1944 was that the proposed facility should be “physically adjacent to the TGH and that the operations be closely allied to ours.”55 The OCTRF appeared to agree with the TGH [...] E. C. Fox, Chair of the Board of Trustees of the TGH, that the hospital “will likely be called on at an early date to make plans for the building and maintenance of a cancer unit.”56 The OCTRF and the TGH appeared to agree on the location, and there was no suggestion that the new facility would be independent of the TGH. [...] The report of this meeting and the brief that was presented were accepted by the OCTRF Board, although there appears to be no record of the actual wording of the brief.63 Immediately thereafter Premier Leslie Frost suggested to the representatives of the OCTRF and the University of Toronto that a facility incorporating treatment and research facilities be constructed on the grounds of the Wellesle [...] The OCTRF Board members argued that the new entity should be a cancer clinic of the OCTRF.66 The TGH trustees clearly understood that the new cancer institute/hospital would be operated by the Board of Trustees and the administration of the TGH.67 Later that year the OCTRF was buoyed by the statement made by the Deputy Minister of Health to Mr.