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MG 1 vol 2124 number 114c

HALIFAX DISASTER RECORD OFFICE
Chronicle Building
Halifax, N. S.

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those who had been well-to-do. Relief seemed to them like a charity. Almost had to make up parcels of food and take it to them.
NOTE Mrs. Anderson was impressed Dec. 6 by the fact that the sunshine was [pal] pale. She noticed this when the operating table was moved out into the street.
NOTE Endurance of pain. Mrs. A. instanced case of girl of about 14 years of age named Blakeney, whose arm was shattered to the elbow, and was three weeks in healing up. Dr. Dickson called Mrs. A. into the room “if I wanted to see grit”. He was going to cocaine the arm, when he thought he would try probing and see how much she could stand. It made Mrs. A. “kind of sick” to see him “probing round”. On questioning her Blakeney’s [paly] playmates it was found that she “could not be hurt”. Evidently a case of insensibility to pain.

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