Anthony,
owing to their numbers and the fact that they can profit by the
employment given by the Mission, should be able increasingly to
assist in the maintenance of this hospital, though a large number of
its clinic is drawn from distant parts. These patients come not only
from Labrador, the Straits of Belle Isle, and southern Newfoundland,
but we have had under our care Syrians, Russians, Scandinavians,
Frenchmen, and naturally Americans and Canadians, seamen from
schooners engaged in the Labrador fishery.

Harrington Hospital, located on the Canadian Labrador, must for many
years to come depend on outside support. I am Lloyd Georgian enough to
feel that taxation should presuppose the obligation to look after the
bodies of the taxed. The Quebec Government gives neither vote,
representation, adequate mail service, nor any public health grant for
the long section of the coast which it claims to govern, that lies
west of the Point des Eskimo. It is to my mind a severe stricture on
their qualifications as legislators. That hospital should, we believe,
be adequately subsidized and kept open summer and winter. At present
we have to thank the Labrador Medical Mission, which is the Canadian
branch of the International Grenfell Association, for their generous
and continued support of this station.

Battle Harbour and Indian Harbour Hospitals can never be anything but
summer stations, owing to their geographical positions on islands in
frozen seas, on which islands there is practically no population
during the winter months. But gifts and grants sufficient to maintain
a doctor at Northwest River Cottage Hospital, and one if possible in
Lewis Bay, winter supplements to these summer hospitals, are to my
thinking more than justifiable.

As to the future of our hospital stations at Pilley's Islands, Spotted
Islands, and Forteau, that will depend upon the changing demands of
local conditions. That the need of medical assistance exists is
unquestionable, as is evidenced from the many appeals which I receive
to start hospitals or supply doctors in districts at present utterly
incapable of obtaining such help.

[Illustration: ENTRANCE TO ST. ANTHONY HARBOUR]

One still indispensable requisite in our scattered field of work is a
hospital steamer. In fact, not a few of us think that the Strathcona
is the keystone of the Mission. She reaches those who need our help
most and at times when they cannot afford to leave home and seek