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MG 1 volume 2124 number 188a

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


kitchen. She was very much interested in watching operations. They "did things so neatly." At 3.30 a. m. December 7th she went home. Went home then because she was afraid she would "fall asleep standing up." She couldn't understand how people couldn't sleep for days after the disaster. She slept everytime she could snatch an hour, which wasn't very often. She worked at Camp Hill every day except the Monday after the explosion, until three days before Christmas. Then she "wasn't useful any more." On Monday she spent the morning "piloting Americans". The American Relief workers had to be shown about the City. The afternoon and evening she spent delivering telegrams, up until 8.30 p.m. Most of the telegrams she delivered were for the North-End (not the devastated area). She would go up to an address and find everything in darkness except for a glimmer of light from a basement window. She would knock on the window, and shout to the people inside. Then she would be told to go to the back-door. "Great fun stumbling over ash-barrels and garbage-cans." "Never did so much walking all at once in my life." Delivered messages from 2.30 to 8.30 without any supper. One woman asked her to come in and have some-thing to eat. She had visions of "nice, hot coffee." The woman gave her ginger-ale and a piece of ginger-bread. "May-be she thought the ginger would be heating." One woman on Windsor St. to whom she took a telegram was sheltering in her home 11 children from the Institution for the Deaf.

NOTE - Two civilian doctors operated for 12 hours without rest. Didn't know their names.
Mentioned Vera Currie, Kathleen Davidson, Gladys Billman as doing splendid work at Camp Hill Hospital. Also mentioned Mr. and Mrs. Hayward.

NOTE - On the morning of the 7th (3.30 a.m.) when Miss Moir went to get her coat and hat to go home, her coat had disappeared. She didn't see it again for a week. Then she found it in Lieut. Blackwood's office. Ruined. Some-one had been wearing it in all the storms. Covered with mud.