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Among the Deep;Sea Fishers Vol. xxv JULY. 1927 No. Contents WILLIAM ADAMS DELANO FrOllti,p'ect THE NEW MEDICAL ERA AT ST ANTHONY lIlu.stralf'd Herbert Tbrelkeld-Edwards "LET US DO GOOD TO ALL MEN" Wilfred T. Grtnfell ",8 THE YEAR'S WORK IN REVIEW 50 A GREAT DONATION Hllrry L. Paddon WILLIAM ADAMS DELANO Theodore Ain,worth Greene " HOW STORES AND SUPPLIES ARE HAN- " DLED AT ST. ANTHONY A. C. Blackburn THE MEN BEHIND THE SCENES fIla-.''''!'' 66" NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN LABRADOR W. T. G CHILDREN'S PAGE lIlu"',aud " A Rag Doll That Saved a Life " Beverly Makes Chrislmaa for Others The; Newfoundl.and Filhery Behind tbe Seelltl .t the Hospital THE CHILDREN'S HOME AT ST ANTHONY 1II1U1,arra Eliubelh Beyer TWO DECADES AT THE ST. ANTHONY SCHOOL Frances E. Baier PLANS FOR DR. GRENFELL'S 19'1-38 LECTURE TOUR 13 A TENDERJo'OOT IN LABRADOR-II Harry Lawrence WIlbur TO VOLUNTEERS-NEW AND OLD The Editor " STAFF AND VOLUNTEER WORKERS-Senon 1917 "77 A TRIBUTE TO THE DENTAL VOLUNTEERS. W. T. G. WHAT THE YOUNG PEOPLE WRITE 8," ASSOCIATION ITEMS New England Grenfell Anociation " The Grenfell Auocialion of Newfoundland MESSAGES FROM THE NURSING STATIONS 8, ANIMAL HUSBANDRY EXPERIMENTS AT THE MISSION 1lI"WI...t .. NEWS FROM ST. ANTHONY A. C. Blackburn 8, ON FURLOUGH.. Dr. Harry L. Paddon 86 STORY OF THE 19'15 P. & S. UNIT, LABRADOR /lilLI/mud Marshall Smith 88 THROUGH ENGLAND WITH DR. GRENFELL 1lIU5lrlll('a "The Man on Ihe Box" FROM DAY TO DAY AT GORDON COVE Frncn W. Conrow NOTES HERE AND THERE " THE TALE OF BRICKS ,6" FROM THE DOCTOR'S MAILBAG. " Arlicln and iteml for illlHtion III the magarine ,hould be lellt to the editor, Mi.. S. E. Demarest, IS6 Fifth Avenue, New York. not later than the bfteenth of the month preceding the month in whiCh publication I' desired. WILUA)I ADA)lS D£I.ASO. A.CHlT£CT OF THE SE..... HO~PITAL AT ~T. Al'THOSY A~IONG THE DEEP-SEA FISHERS S' Among the Deep~Sea Fishers The Official Organ of the International Grenfell Association Vol. xxv. JULY, 1927 No. THE NEW MEDICAL ERA IN ST. ANTHONY B~' HUIEllT TIIIIELKEI.D-EDW,\RDS "WE'LL move tomorrow," Dr. Curtis cooked, the large kitchen range was disman . said one afternoon the latter part of tled, Oecallse it too had to be moved. The January. He said it quite calmly. general exodus of the thirty patil':nts started The remark might have been "lIand me the at anI': o'clock, some few walking, the othen forceps, Jllease" or "Put on a wet dressing," well bundkd lip and carried. Stretcher fol but it meant t.he culmination of long }'ears of lowed stretcher, komatik followed komatik hoping. planning, working, and worrying. It between the two buildings, and barcly an hour meant that the old wooden frame hospital was later e,ery patient had 1;I«n moved and was to be abandoned and the door which had stood safely in bed! Staff furnishings., operating open for a quarter of a century to r«eh'e room and dispensary equipment followed_ The patients from the two coasts of North New kitchen range was installed, and by fi"e foundland and Labrador was to be closed and o'clock the paticnts were eating their supper, locked! But it also meant that the doors of still rather bewildered in their new :lOd so dif a thoroughl}' modem, fireproof, up-to-date ferent surroundings. The ward is a patient's ho pital ""-ere to be opened. The gray concrete world, and Ihis new 'A'orld of theirs with its building which bad 1;I«n growing steadily gra}" and !.ouff stucco ,,-ails, its ""'aXed linoleum 'since ~{a}', 192;. was now fini~hed, and stood floors and wide corridors, had little in common ready and waiting for doctors., nurses, and with the old dingy w-alls, squeaking boards mo~t important of all, for patients. and narrow halls. It is true that Dr. Curtis' words, despite Like all long expected and anxiously awaited their significance. were not greeted with cheers e,-ents it was O"er almost before anyone real or ~houlS of acclaim. For w«ks everyone ized it had started. One day e,-ery one would had !.octn at work till late at night, cleaning, tum in at the long familiar gate to the old painting. and installing new equipment in the hospital; the next day, just as naturally, con ne\\ huilding, in addition to their regular work, tinue past the old and take the path to the in a determined effort to move before the nl':w. It was another instance of "The king winter finally set in. So that Dr. Curtis' is dead, long live the king:' Another mile statement meant only morc work and worry stone had been passed and another era for tho~e who felt they already had had started. enough. There .have been several mcdical "eras" in But Dr. Curtis, who has managed since the St. Anthonl. The first and darkest began foundations were started to spend hours every long ago when the people were depenr!.ent on da}' at the new building, in s{lite of a crowded the intermillent medical attention supplied by h )spital, frequent operations, and tIIlergency doctors coming on boats, staying a brief time, calls, had planned the final moving as thor and going on to other ,'illages in an effort to oughly as he dou all things. The new equip cope with an almost hapeless task of serdog ment bad been installed in December. The the entire coast. The next period began in heat had hecn on for weeks: lights needed but 1901, when Dr. Grenfell spent :lOother winter the pres.ing of a b:.ttton; steam ",,-as up in the in SL Anthony and determined to build his sterilizer, :lOd a ncw bed comJllete with bed third hospital there. ding stood waiting for each jl<Itient The first hospital on the Labndor C03.st )anuaJ)' Z1 dawned clear but cold, the ther w-as opened at Battle Harbor in 1893. The mometu marking 25° below' zero. As soon following lear fGund one two hundred miles as the early dinner f'r the p3tients had been north on Indian Harbor Island, In his auto- AMONG THE DEEP-SE..o\ FISHERS THE NEW BUILDING, I'INISIIED AND OCCU1'I[D JANUARY, 1927 biography, "A Labrador Doctor," Dr. Gren and often drip from the ceilings, necessitating fell says of the building of the first St. constant mopping. and in the winter these Anlhony Hospital: "In the early spring an same cracks would allow zero winds to com expedition into the woods was arranged, and pete with the pigmy efforts of the small fur with 100 men and thrice as many dogs, we nace to heat the wards. The cellar. which camped in the trees., and at the end of the was nothing more than a pit dug into the fortnight came home hauling behind us the ground under the building. ",-as too small for materi;p.1 for a J6 x J6 hospital. We were the boiler. The only acren to the cellar ior quartermasters and general providers. Our coal and ashes other than through the hospi kitchen "''as dug down in thick woods through tal proper was a small chute barely large six fttt of snow." enough for a man on his hands and knees. This first hospilOll consisted of a small ~rd Drainage was so poor that water flooded' for m('n, an equally small one for women, the basement to the height of the grates and operating room. dispensary. kitchen, and three put out the fires, and in the spring. in March slaff rooms. Oil stoves were needed to sup. and April. men would be emplo)'ed pumping plement the sm;p.ll furnace placed in an exca to kcC")) the «liar clear! Sewerage was a ,-:ation nnder one part of lhe hospital. All constant problem, not only because the draim water was brought in buckeu and barrels and Wil5te llipc:s all over the building became from a spring, and the one bathtub w;p.s filled clogged, but the main sewer would back up by hand. The lighting was by kerosene lamps. and fill the cellar! The installation of an electric lighting plant Daily inconveniences were too numerous to in 1908 marked a great advancement, and that mention. A single narrow staircase made the lame year Dr. John Mason Little, who was taking of stretcher patients up or down a the doctor in charge, raised the needed money matter of almost acrobatic skill. The steril and greatly increased the size of the building. iting room, where kerosene stoves were used The wards and kitchen were enlarged and a to heat water and the sterilizer for dressings, new operating room and sterilizing room and was heated by nil oil burner, connected directly six staff rooms were added. Soon other ad· with the operating room, and the fumes of vances were made. Plumbing "''as inSlalled. burnt kerosene and ether made long operating the heating system "'~ changed from hot air a matler of piercing headaches and smarting to steam, a sun room and open air porches eyes. Thin wooden floors separated the 'II"ards were built. and these ..,..ere followed by an from the st~ff bedrooms directly aOO\·e and X-ray room and a laboratOf)·. The building, the staff dining and Ih'ing rooms belo..... so which took on larger dimensions with its new tbat when the staff were not disturbing the 'ft'ings and additions, uill retained many of patients below, the patients abo\*(' interrurted Ihe original difficulties and inconn·niences.