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the Straits of Belle Isle with an internal disease ; 

 then by a poor girl brought south in the mail 

 steamer from the cabin of one of the small fishing 

 vessels. She died in hospital. The poor thing was 

 engaged to be married this summer. Had she been 

 able to come earlier for proper assistance there can 

 be no doubt her life would have been saved. The 

 fourth patient in this bed was a girl of eighteen. 

 She had been suffering with an internal abscess for 

 nearly three years when I saw her first in Sandwich 

 Bay in the Princess May. After the operation we 

 sent her by the mail to Battle Hospital. Here she 

 remained some weeks, and on returning south in the 

 Princess May, and again visiting Sandwich Bay, I 

 found the girl returned, a new creature altogether. 

 "I should like to have stayed always," she told me. 



W. T. G. 



The following are a few figures from, my report 

 rendered to the St. Johns Auxiliary Branch of the 

 M.D.S.F. : 



In 1894, owing to the loss of the s.s. Sir Donald, 

 and the fact of the Princess May being unable to 

 reach the coast, the work of the mission was much 

 curtailed. Yet out of 1,306 patients treated a much 

 larger proportion were serious cases, and more 

 patients availed themselves of the hospitals. This 

 number will no doubt increase. 



There were treated this year by 



