ob than digging." But they did the work, and a whole lot more
besides. For their grit and jollity, and above all their readiness to
tackle and see through such side tasks as unloading and stowing away
some three hundred tons of coal were real "missionary" lessons.

The ever-growing demand for doctors as the war dragged on made it
harder and harder to man our far-off stations. The draft in America
was the last straw, doctors having already been forbidden to leave
England or Canada. Dr. Charles Curtis had taken over Dr. Little's work
at St. Anthony, and stood nobly by, getting special permission to do
so. Dr. West, who had succeeded our colleague, Dr. Mather Hare, at
Harrington, when his wife's breakdown had obliged him to leave us, had
already given us a year over his scheduled time, for he had accepted
work in India at the hands of those who had specially trained him for
that purpose.

We had been having considerable trouble in the accommodation of the
heavy batches of patients that came by the mail boat. They were left
on the wharf when she steamed away, and only the floors of our
treatment and waiting-rooms were available for their reception. For
all could not possibly go into the wards, where children, and often
very sick patients, were being cared for. The people around always
stretched their hospitality to the limit, but this was a very
undesirable method of housing sick persons temporarily. Owing to the
generosity of a lady in New Bedford and other friends, we were enabled
to meet the problem by the erection of a rest house, with first and
second class accommodation. This was built in the spring of 1917, and
has been a Godsend to many besides patients. It makes people free to
come to St. Anthony and stay and benefit by whatever it has to offer,
without the feeling that they have no place to which they can go.
Moreover, this hostel has been entirely self-supporting from the day
that it opened, and every one who goes and comes has a good word for
the rest house. It is run by one of our Labrador orphan boys, whose
education was finished in America, and "Johnnie," as every one calls
him, is already a feature in the life of the place.

Among the advances of the year 1918 must also be noted that more
subscribers and subscriptions from local friends have been received
than ever before. Our X-ray department has been added to. We have been
able also to improve the roads, a thing greatly to be desired.

Look where we wi