HALIFAX CALLED 51 GRADUATES

The University was represented by 51 graduates in the various units of the American relief expedition recently sent from New England to aid the stricken city of Halifax. On the day of the disaster President Lowell was, with others, in conference with Governor McCall, and arrangements were made immediately to send the first special relief train, in charge of the vice-chairman of the Massachusetts Committee on Public Safety.

According to a summary of the work published in the current Alumni Bulletin, this train carried the hospital unit of Dr. W. A. Brooks '87, made up of 12 surgeons and a corps of nurses; the American Red Cross Unit, appointed that day by Director-General W. F. Persons, LL.B. '05, and a carload of medical and general supplies.

The Red Cross Unit included J. F. Moors '83, recently elected member of the Corporation, and W. H. Pear '89. Mr. Moors was given entire charge of the Red Cross work, and he and his staff had the duty of co-operating with the citizens of Halifax in organizing the relief work.

24 Graduates in Unit.

Twenty-four hours after the arrival of the first relief train the Red Cross Unit, under Dr. W. E. Ladd '02, reached Halifax. Among the Physicians were 24 graduates of the University Medical School. They carried with them on a special train an entire equipment for a 500-bed hospital, in charge of S. H. Wolcott '03, assisted by G. H. Watson '98, Elton Clark '96 and L. Howland '00.

A Red Cross Hospital from Rhode Island, arriving four days after the disaster, contained eight University physicians.

Dr. E. A. Codman '91 also went to Halifax, taking the superintendent of his private hospital and a nurse, and was given charge of a hospital in the Y. M. C. A. Building. With him was Dr. H. V. Anderson, M.D. '96.