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Personal account of Miss Velma Moore, at Studley

19 March 1918. — 2 pages : 30 x 42 cm.

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MG 1 volume 2124 number 47 March 19, 1918 at Studley..
Miss Velma Moore
Dec. 6 helping at our house - after tea went to Camp Hill ([L?]. Mackinnon) - first impulse to flee - no person to tell you what to do. No experience even of sickness - Did what we could - binding up wounds & getting what the patients wanted getting things the medical students wanted from the dispensary - A Goode had charge of dispensary - (worked till 2 p.m.) - bandages, boracic acid, etc, iodine - first ward to right - got acquainted with a few of patients {Doris?] Wood. scalded terribly - (death in papers) - & cut attempting to hold chimney from down on her children - hot water tank came down - soldier overseas - very bright - {even ??? ???] - Miss Davis from Bloomfield - bruised not cut - internal injuries - suffering so - rubbed body with iodine - [Burned?Baird?]
Saw Mrs Crowdis - couldn't see any eye - just a bloody mass
saw Dr. Cox of N. Glasgow.
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had just finished paying for it - meeting [daughter?] before a church - young man came along - [M?]
operating on his boy. - all his relatives had been
killed.
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Out in kitchen Friday, Sat. Sunday doing
ward work
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Reference: Archibald MacMechan Nova Scotia Archives MG 1 volume 2124 number 47

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