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to Halifax under the same auspices, and continues in a most generous and whole hearted fashion to assist and advise in the work of registration and rehabilitation.

Following in order, and within an amazingly short time of the disaster, came the Boston Red Cross Hospital Unit with Dr. W. E. Ladd at it's head, and comprising 22 doctors, 69 nurses and 14 civilians. This unit came by special train with complete equipment for a 500 bed hospital.

There next apprised the Providence Hospital Unit, under Major Hough. It came by special train and numbered 52 doctors, 52 nurses and 3 civilians.

On about the same date there arrived a special train of supplies from the New York City, American Red Cross, Atlantic Division. Mr. K. Russell, who is still in Halifax, came in charge and with him were four trained workers. Dr. E. A. Codman, an eminent specialist of Boston, with 10 doctors, 4 nurses and 9 civilians arrived about the same time and attached themselves to the American Red Cross.

It is not inappropriate that in this record it should also be gratefully mentioned that the State of Maine, that portion of the great Republic territorially nearest us, promptly sent to the relief of the Halifax sufferers a Hospital Unit under Major G. M. Elliott, who with 12 doctors, 13 nurses and 11 civilians came by special train in the early days of the disaster.