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Halifax Disaster Record Office
Chronicle Building
Halifax, N. S.

patients on them, and continued giving first-aid. The patients were laid "flat on the ground". Dr. M. reported to Camp Hill Hospital "Splendid first-aid done by the soldiers, on the Common." Some were almost in a dying condition. As far as she knew there was no case of confinement on the Common. At one time there was a rush towards one place, but the baby was two or three days old. Instanced case of young woman, with hole in her throat through to trachia A round cavity caused by glass. Was bleeding freely. Put sterilized guaze over it. Mrs. Laidlaw, patient of Dr. M's, thought she had broken because it hurt, and looked so strange. The arm looked deformed to Mrs. M. She discovered that it had not been broken, but that a large piece of jagged glass had been driven in from above the wrist towards the elbow, and was standing on end. Mrs. L's arm was fat (Mrs. M illustrated from her own. It was the left arm). Mrs. M extracted the glass. Cases were cuts and fractures. Didn't look after anything else. About two o'clock got back to the house. Mrs. Holland, a member of the St. John's Ambulance Brigade, who lived in the North End reported to Mrs. M. After the explosion, she crawled upstairs to see her mother, an old lady who was in bed. She found the bed capsized, upside down, with her mother underneath. The head of the bed was resting on a trunk, which stood at the foot of the bed and so protected the patient from injury. All the heavy mahogany furniture was piled on top of the upset bed and the curtains were on top of the pile. With the help of a sailor she got her mother out and put her in a place of safety. Rendered first-aid in three or four cases, and then became faint. She reported to Mrs. MacIntosh. Patients continued to come into the house till eight o'clock. At eight o'clock Mrs. M. went to Camp Hill Hospital and remained until