Letters From the Front

Dated:

No. 3. Gen Hospital, France
January 5^th, 1918

The Secretary of St. Andrew's Missionary Society, Huntingdon

Dear Madam:

I received by today's post the beautifully put-up box of maple cream as a Christmas present from the members of your society, and I wish to thank you very much for it. It was clever to solder the lid on, as the cream arrived in perfect condition, and it was quite impossible to crush the box open.

Dr. Rowat's son (Athelstan) is at present one of our Canadian wounded in hospital. He had a severe wound of the right arm, and also pneumonia, but is making satisfactory progress.

We are still very busy, and to show you what a cosmopolitan hospital we are, I may tell you that we have this morning about 500 Portuguese patients, nearly 200 coming in last night at one time. The average number of patients in hospital for the past few months has been between 1300 and 1400. This morning we have 1500 in. It will give perhaps a better idea of the hospital, were I to state that the Montreal General and the Royal Victoria Hospitals, in Montreal, average between 300 and 400 per day each.

I enclose a copy of the statistical table showing the work done by the hospital during the past year, and also a summary of the work done up to the end of last year, and the results of which we are very proud.

With best wishes for a happy New Year to all my Huntingdon friends.

Believe me yours very gratefully,

J.M. Elder

Statistics for 1917 only

Statistics of work since beginning to end of the year 1917