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Doctor Grenfell has, from very small beginnings, established in unparalleled system of relief for the poor coast population of Newfoundland. He has combined a Christian purpose with medical skill, and has built up along the north Atlantic cost a string of hospitals and comfortable, attractive reading rooms where the men are taken care of and entertained. He travels from place to place in his three-masted relief boat and every summer he takes a limited number of Harvard men with him. These summer trips are invaluable experiences for any who are interested in medical service and mission work among...
...Grenfell has given up his time, since he went into the Newfoundland region, to establishing hospitals and improving the economic condition of the country. The number of deaths from tuberculosis, the most extensive disease, is being lessened by the establishment of "open air" hospitals, and glass-walled wards. Such progress has been made that in one of the hospitals the chief Marconi operator now has an X-ray machine. Dr. Grenfell has built several mills and machine shops which, even though operating at a loss financially, are giving the people many needed conveniences...
...illustrated lecture on "Service Under Dr. Grenfell" will be given by John Mason Little, Jr., '97, M.D., in charge of the hospital at Dr. Grenfell's headquarters in St. Anthony, Newfoundland, in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8.15 o'clock. As the lecture will be of such general interest, the Union announces that membership cards will not be required for admission. The balcony will be reserved for ladies...
...working shoulder to shoulder with Dr. Grenfell. Throughout the first three years of his service, Dr. Little was mainly occupied in doing relief work,--during the summer months on the schooner "Strathcona," in winter travelling by dog-team. Since then he has done heroic work at the hospital in Newfoundland...
John Mason Little, Jr., '97, M.D., in charge of the hospital at Dr Grenfell's headquarters, St. Anthony, Newfoundland, will give an illustrated lecture in the Living Room of the Union tomorrow evening at 8.15 o'clock...