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two months in hospital. His body alone reached 

 his relatives in Newfoundland. 



The second bed was the " Harris Cot." There 

 were three patients in this bed this season. The 

 first was suffering with pleurisy; the second had 

 to have his middle finger amputated, after a deep 

 abscess of the hand; the third also had a severely 

 poisoned hand. 



The third, the "Redhill Cot," was occupied by a 

 fisherman with paralysis of the right arm and leg, 

 and then by a poor fellow with consumption. 



The fourth, the " Hutchinson Cot," was occupied 

 by, first, a man with a severely crushed hand ; then 

 by a poor fellow from far north, sent back by the 

 Albert (he was suffering from ulcer of the stomach) ; 

 and, thirdly, by a French Canadian who was brought 

 in a sealing steamer from Canadian Labrador, with 

 a deep abscess of the back. 



The fifth, the " Exeter Cot," was occupied, first, by 

 a fisherman with rheumatic fever and heart disease ; 

 second, by a man with excessive deep inflammation 

 of the arm and forearm ; third, by a man with 

 abscess in the palm of his hand ; fourth, by a young 

 American with an affection resulting from consump- 

 tion in the system; fifth, by a very similar case 

 with a Newfoundlander. 



The sixth, the " Macpherson Cot," was in the 

 female ward. First of all it was occupied by a 

 young girl who had to undergo a serious operation ; 

 then by a woman who had come fifty miles down 



