Along the Labrador coast / by Charles Wendell Townsend.

  • Townsend, Charles Wendell, 1859-1934.
Date:
[1907], ©1907
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Credit: Along the Labrador coast / by Charles Wendell Townsend. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fronts: “ Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.” There are accommodations for the nurses, who are called “ sisters,” and for about twenty patients. There is a neat dispensary, where out-patients, coming from the visiting fishing-vessels and brought from the surrounding country, are attended to. There is also an excellent operating-room, where many a poor soul is relieved of some great handicap to existence, and restored to useful¬ ness. The resident physician’s house is a picturesque little cottage which was brought here in pieces and set up on slightly higher ground to the north of the hospital. Here we were hospitably received by Doctor Grenfell’s assistant, Doctor Mumford, and his wife and sister on our first visit, and by Doctor Grieve and his wife on our return, for the former assistant had been relieved and had started for England during our absence. Two Bowdoin College students were spending the summer at the hospital assisting in Doctor Grenfell’s work in every way they could, but especially in