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Report: Dalhousie's Part in the Relief Work

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[embossed letterhead: Halifax Disaster Record Office, Chronicle Building, Halifax, N.S.]

DALHOUSIE'S PART IN RELIEF WORK.

Marjorie Stailing worked at "Old Ladies' Home", "Infant's Home", and "St. Mary's Army and Navy ", until College opened.

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Jessie Campbell worked for a week helping care for "a houseful of casualties in the devastated area" as she tells us. The work was carried on under great difficulty because of the very wretched condition of the building.
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Sarah Morash -- Relief Sewing until College opened.
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Natalie Littler -- Clerical work at St. Paul's Hall, Statistics Office of Medical Relief and Maine Military Unit Hospital.
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Freda Creighton -- Ward work at Camp Hill on Friday.
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Eliphal Nichols -- ward work at "School for the Blind" Thursday and Friday. Then at Camp Hill Saturday. After that at the Bread Counter, Camp Hill, until the evening of December 14th.
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(Ward work' means washing patients, helping with dressings, feeding, etc. -- etc. --.
'Bread Counter' means cutting and spreading bread long after your hands are stiff and blistered because there seems to be no limit to the amount of bread consumed in a place like Camp Hill.)

[handwritten top right: MG 1 volume 2124 number 26a]


Reference: Archibald MacMechan Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 volume 2124 number 26

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