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MG 1 volume 2124 number 193b

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


After the doctors had finished the first operating work, M.M. and two other girls cleaned out the operating room, taking bandages, absorbent cotton, clothes etc. which had been used, to the furnace. The doctors, (four) lying around on benches "utterly exhausted". At that time they expected another train of injured to arrive the next morning. After this was done they carried drinks to the patients and did "all sorts of things" until morning. The girls all worked very hard. Sue Chase in one case held a man's leg while it was being amputated. The man from the Agricultural College also worked splendidly. Reagh Tinney of Charlottetown, and [blank] Donat, were particularly good. The doctors advised Donat to study medicine. At nine o'clock the night workers were sent off duty. M.M. went to boarding house to breakfast. She suffers very much from rheumatism and her feet felt 'worse than they had for two years.' After breakfast she went to be and slept until one o'clock, got up and had lunch and then studied until 6 o'clock. Went back on duty at the Court-House at seven, Did the 'same sort of work' as the night before. Was on duty for four nights. Then Principal Cummings sent word to the hospital not to let her work any more, as he was afraid her health would not stand any longer. (She had been in ill-health for about four years). She rested for a day, and then went back to classes.

[Coni?] by Miss Jessie MacAloney (sister) Jan. 2. 1918
Revised Jan. 2. 1918
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