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MG 1 volume 2124 number 188

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

PERSONAL NARRATIVE.
Marjorie Moir.
10 Jubliee Road.

At the time of the explosion she was in bed. At twenty-five minutes past nine (twenty minutes after explosion) she was at Camp Hill Hospital asking what she could do. While she was dressing she looked out of the window and saw "droves of people" on Jubilee Road. "It was like an army." They were carrying "the craziest things you could imagine." When she got out on the street it was so crowded with "scared people" that she could scarcely get through to go to the hospital. When she got to C. H. Hospital there was "blood everywhere", injured people were being brought in "dripping gore". She met a man that she supposed was a doctor and asked "Can I do anything?" He said "Come right along in here." She put her coat and hat in a little room--and followed the doctor. "Then the Party started." The first thing he gave her to do was holding a woman's feet while he bound up her legs, both of which were slit (the calves) from knee almost to ankle, as though some one had done it with a knife. The feet were very dirty. She "didn't know people ever let themselves get so filthy." After that job was done, the doctor asked her if she was a V.A.D. She said "No, I'm just an ordinary person but I'm willing to do anything I can." So he called a nurse and told her to put Miss M. to work. The nurse took her to the dining-room and told her to clean the tops of the tables, which were covered in white oil-cloth. Miss M. went into the kitchen and "swiped a dish-cloth and some warm water," and washed off all the tables. After that was finished she went to the kitchen again and washed dishes almost without cessation for eight hours. Some-times she would stop to hold a pan of hot water with surgical instruments in it for the doctors, who were operating on the meat-tables in the