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While she was learning to be a nurse, they travelled to farm houses and she learned to deliver babies, set broken bones, take tonsils out and other minor operations. Because hospitals were few and far between they had to look after the people themselves. Before she moved to Pickering Village, Rachael married Mr. Orvil Irish and had two sons, Samuel and Norman. Mrs. Irish moved to Pickering Village in 1921 and began her work in this area. Sometime later, after Mrs. Irish left Dr. Warren, she met Dr. Cartwright of Pickering. When he saw her capabilities and enthusiasm to help the sick, Dr. Cartwright asked her to work with him. Unfortunately Rachael's mother was ill and she was unable to leave her but so as not to disappoint Dr. Cartwright she asked him if it would be all right to bring patients to her brothers home, Mr. Louis Scott, of Pickering thus she began her first hospital. Mrs. Irish mainly took care of maternity cases. It is not known how many babies she delivered but an estimated guess would put it in the hundreds. She was the only one capable of delivering babies for miles around Pickering and the mothers sometimes came to her in very unusual ways. For instance: One stormy night she heard a knock at the door. When she answered it there was a big burly policeman with a pregnant woman on a toboggan. He had to bring her this way because it was snowing out and the roads were blocked. Needless to say the mother and baby both survived thanks to Mrs. Irish and the policeman. Mrs. Irish assisted Dr. Harding from Oshawa when it became necessary for someone to have his tonsils out. Many people in this area can remember having their tonsils out on the dining room table under a big fluorescent light. Some of the patients would put up quite a battle when they were going under and sometimes they had to have a couple of people hold the patient down so that the doctor would not get hit. Later she moved to her own home on the corner of Church Street and Lincoln Street. Here she had her second hospital. From here she moved to 49 Kingston Road West, where she still lives today. It was at this address that she had a boarding house besides her hospital. Mrs. Irish kept herself cont'd