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MG 1 vol 2124
number 339 H - 43

Hancock
recept [illegible] for you [R+B?]

Dalhousie University,
Halifax, N.S.,
May 11th, 1918

Dear Mr. Rogers,

I am still working away at the History of the
Medical Aspect of the Disaster and have finished all
the portion dealing with the narrative. A great deal
of the Appendix is also completed.
The following descriptive accounts promised me
now for quite a long time are still not at hand; first,
that of Dr. William Grieve Nichol of Montreal, who was
here nearly two months and could give a very graphic
account of his experiences; secondly, the account by
Mr Barnstead of the doings of the Mortuary Committee;
and a report which I asked from Dr. William McDonald
of Providence, R.I.
As regards certain essential lists, I have found
them so inaccurate and incomplete, as, for instance, the
list of medical men and the list of the fractures, that
I have been compelled to ask for supplementary lists from
Colonel Jacques, A.D.M.S., and these have not been received
up to the present time.
I presume that you will agree with me that the
Medical History ought to contain a complete list of the
identified dead; and in the even of Mr. Barnstead not
supplying me with a special report, I propose producing
the alphabetical list which had already appeared more than
once in the press.