999 Queen St. West was a standing joke as you say Jani. Yep if you did anything off the wall you were going to 999 Queen St. Everything today is to get them fixed and out in a day it seems. A stay in hosp to have a baby was 10 days...Now it's like 24 hrs. It's sad mentally ill are living on the streets. Sanitorium/Instution whatever the label I wasn't aware the one on Hamilton Mountain use to house TB patients until I did my family tree and discovered my mom was a patient there for 2 years. I wish those records was online. xoxo Sandy From: Jani Carless <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [CAN-ONT-SIMCOE] With reference to - WILLIAMS, William Elwood & SCOTT, George Buster To: Simcoe List <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi Paul and Pam, I lived in west end Toronto in the late '60s. Twice daily I passed this sad place on the streetcar, to and from work. Red Brick, flat fronted, and turn-of-the-century institutional-looking, it is forever etched in my memory. Of course, the sorry joke in Toronto at the time, if one did anything odd or mistaken, was that they would be sent to '999' (Queen St. West). Even sadder was the closing of many of these institutions (however inadequate), including '999', by the Harris government in the early 1990's, forcing many very ill people to live under bridges. But now I am getting into political comment and beyond the scope of this list. Regards Jani