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Medical staff at Toronto Western Hospital are doing the cleaning because kitchen workers, cleaners and maintenance men have been on strike for a week.(...)
Medical staff at Toronto Western Hospital are doing the cleaning because kitchen workers, cleaners and maintenance men have been on strike for a week.(...)

Medical staff at Toronto Western Hospital are doing the cleaning because kitchen workers, cleaners and maintenance men have been on strike for a week.(...)

Date7/18/1972
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Original Toronto Star caption: Medical staff at Toronto Western Hospital are doing the cleaning because kitchen workers; cleaners and maintenance men have been on strike for a week. Linda Kalbfleisch; assistant head nurse of the surgery ward; and Dr. John McCormick of the geriatric ward mop floors in geriatric ward today as patients watch.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0016907F
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