directors as his successor, only that part of the
Lewis Bay scheme which enables us to give work in winter providing
wood supplies has so far materialized.

In 1915 also, at a place called Northwest River, one hundred and
thirty miles up Hamilton Inlet from Indian Harbour, a little cottage
hospital and doctor's house combined was built, called the "Emily
Beaver Chamberlain Memorial Hospital." Thus the work of Dr. and Mrs.
Paddon has been converted into a continuous service, for formerly when
Indian Harbour Hospital was closed in the fall, they had no place in
which they could efficiently carry on their work during the winter
months. Before Dr. Paddon came to the coast, Dr. and Mrs. Norman
Stewart gave us several years of valuable service, spending their
summers at Indian Harbour and returning for the winter to St. Anthony,
according to my original plan when I first built St. Anthony Hospital.

An old friend and worker at St. Anthony, Mr. John Evans of
Philadelphia, who had helped us with our deer and other problems,
having married our head nurse, the first whom we had ever had from
Newfoundland, found it essential to return and take up remunerative
work at home.

The increasing number of patients seeking help at St. Anthony made it
necessary to provide proportionately increasing facilities. As I have
stated elsewhere, the sister of my splendid colleague, Dr. Little, in
1909 had raised the money for the new wing of the hospital for the
accommodation of the summer accession of patients. The clinic which
had now grown so tremendously, due to Dr. Little's magnificent work,
was maintaining a permanent house surgeon, Dr. Louis Fallen, who had
faithfully served the Mission at different times at other stations. We
had also regular dental and eye departments.

The summer of 1917 was saddened for us all by the loss to the work of
my beloved and able colleague, Dr. John Mason Little, Jr., who had
given ten years of most valuable labour to the people of this coast.
He had married, some years before, our delightful and unselfish
helper, Miss Ruth Keese, and they now had four little children growing
up in St. Anthony. The education of his family and the call of other
home ties made him feel that it had become essential for him to
terminate his more intimate connection with the North, and he left us
to take up medical work in Boston. The loss of them both was a very
heavy one to the work and to us personally, and we are only thank