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HALIFAX DISASTER RECORD OFFICE
CHRONICLE BUILDING
HALIFX, N.S.
JOURNAL

Between four and five hundred victims of the disaster arrived on these trains, two hundred and twelve of whom were subjects for hospital treatment.

Our town physicians and other medical men, who rushed in from the country worked incessantly, night and day, for the relief of the sufferers, without thought of rest until every suffering soul had been treated. Many major as well as minor surgical operations were performed which have since been highly commended and complimented by visiting medical experts.

Our towns-women, our own wives, mothers, and sisters, in the great goodness of their sympathetic and benevolent hearts, view with each other in all the arts and resourcefulness belonging to the sex, in administrating in the ameliorating of the sufferings of these their afflicted and suffering fellow beings.

Those who were spared the ordeal of seeing the wounded who were sent forward to us may somewhat realize the character of their injuries to know that two died in transit and ten succumbed within two days, in the hospitals.

The excellent work of medical treatment and nursing went on without ceasing in the respective hospital units, as mentioned, for seventeen days, when results were found to be so satisfactory that the more than two hundred patients were reduced to fifty bed patients.

Our local military hospital, now being ready, was put in commission and the remaining convalescents were moved into this spacious building, where are care and attending they received was equal to that possible to be had in any modern well regulated medical institution.

So rapid was the recovery of the patients in our charge that in twenty-four days, the sixteenth inst., there were but eight bed patients left, two at the Ainslie Hospital and six in the Military Hospital. On consultation with the Chairman of the Halifax Medical Relief Board these patients, except those in the Ainslie Hospital were forwarded in an ambulance car to Halifax.

On the evening of the day after this terrible calamity which befell our Capital and our Province which startled and aroused the sympathy of the world, outside of Hun domains, a citi-


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