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

January 24, 1918
Journal

Great Relief Aid of the Y.M.C.A.
Less Than an Hour After the Explosion Patients Were Going Into the Building and the Good Work Continued There Unceasingly.
It would be hard to estimate or give a complete account of the splendid work accomplished at the Y.M.C.A. Building the day of the explosion, It was indeed too larger to "cover," from a newspaper standpoint, but one who worked with the Association that day and night, cannot let the deeds, or rather, some of them, go by unnoticed by the "madding crowd." The Association gave over everything. Mr. Moriarity, the General Secretary and the staff who were on duty, worked like whirlwinds to put the building in order for a hospital. Before ten o'clock, less than an hour after the explosion, the patients began to pour into the Y.M.C.A. and the staff with a few volunteer workers, including members of the Ladies College, dormitory members and Miss Glass, of the Y.M.C.A with a staff of helpers, started immediately to care for the injured. A soup kitchen was established and a clothing depot and before night, an information Bureau. The first barrel of soup arrived from the Green Lantern.
By six o'clock two hundred cases had passed through the reception room, which was turned into a dressing station. and twenty cases had been taken to the dormintory. Mr. Duncan a young naval doctor, took charge of the dressing and by night Mrs. (Dr.) McDougall had arrived

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