The Ontario government released its most recent Ontario Mobilization & Engagement Model for Community Policing (OMEM) in 2010, but many police services in the province are just now starting to move toward implementation. OMEM emphasizes having all community members and human services agencies working with the police to keep neighbourhoods safer, more secure, and healthier. The most appropriate service takes the lead in any community safety and wellbeing initiative. The new model requires considerable cultural change from all participants to be successful. This article outlines the Ontario Provincial Police efforts to implement OMEM and some of its early successes and ongoing challenges.
which occurred in a gentleman under my care fifteen years ago, and since married, and which had never been followed by any constitutional disturbance, I was reminded that I might have-mistaken inflammatory for syphilitic induration. Upon my showiug a few cases in which secondary symptoms had followed a non-indurated sore, I was told that the induration required touch of,a most experienced person for detection; that it was sometimes so transient as to escape observation
the history of the illness of the old woman, who was not under my care, and found that she had suffered and died from the effects of typhoid. Her cottage was situated a considerable distance from the young ladies' abode. My patient's sister, aged x8, was the next to suffer, three days later. In both these cases the disease was in the severest form, attended with continually repeated diarrhoea and bloody evacuations. At the end of three weeks the issue was doubtful, but they ultimately recovered. They were kept in separate rooms. Their mother took her part (and too freely) in as3isting the nurses ; she took the disease at the end of the third week of the outbreak, and died within a few days. Three nurses attended these patients "in turn"; all of them took the disease, and one died. The household consisted of eight persons, namely, the mother (aged 6o, a widow), the two daughters already mentioned, and a married daughter and her husband, both about 35, and their son, ro years of age; also two young maidservants, besides outdoor servants, groom, etc., in the habit of drinking the ale and water used in the house All the household used water from the same source, for drinking
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