ST. ANNE'S CONVALESCENT HOSPITAL

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 64, 10 December 1918, Page 6

ST. ANNE'S CONVALESCENT HOSPITAL

.Sir,—Please allow me 6pace to enter on emphatic protest ami denial against the statement in the Parliamentary columns of this morning's paper, viz., the question asked by the Hon. G. Jones re Si. Anne's convalescent home. ' I hove no idea where he picked up fjuch piffle; but all our opinions are that a man in his position has, or should have, something , definite before he makes so serious a charge. As a patient who has been at St. Anne's.for nearly a fortnight, I consider it unjust to cost such a slur on St. Anne's patients" without any foundation. The sisters here e'an vouch for whot we say when we deny the state--ment. 'No one leaves the grounds without permission, and we have seen none return the worse for liquor. What we have seen has been nothing but gentlemanly behaviour of all concerned. One and all of 1 us have the greatest respect for the sisters and the helpers who are carrying 'on such good work'hero. Nothing has been that should not have bton. Speaking for myself, as a Protestant, and others (and there are several here among the seamen) we think that sectarian strife is at the back of it all, and we take strong, exception to the statement, after the generous treatment here, to no one more than another. Many of us' have been away down in "The Valley of Death," and it has been the untiring care of the sisters at the Mission for Seamen and the good work of the nuns and helpers here that, we are as well as we are. Seamen as a rule have never a good name; but that was in tho olden days—not now. Both at the Mission and here the statement has been made, "Give us 'the seamen, they're gentlemen. 1 . Had a patient come in under the influence we would quickly have reported him to the sister in charge and Captain Munro, and had him fired out. No, Sir, the patients havo too much respect to do 6iich a thing. We have visitors day and night, and we have a visit daily from the. doctor, and Captain Munro has been hero as often as throe times a day. Do you think the two latter gentlemen would stand such conduct? Again, we have a quar-termaster-sergeant and two orderlies in charge, and as to tho statement re nurses getting more work, there does not happen to be any nurses here. I think I have written sufficient to convince you there was no foundation in the statement, and I can assure you I write for all concerned when I sign myself—

A PATIENT AT ST. ANNE'S December 9. [