steel helmets during the bombardment, with patients who were under anaesthetics and could not be moved.  They have waited out beside men who could not be got in from under shell fire of the enemy until darkness fell.  Two V.A.D. nurses in another raid saw to the removal of all their patients to cellars and, while they themselves were entering the cellars after everyone was safe, bombs fell upon the building they had just left and completely demolished it.  Some of our nurses have died of typhus.  They have been wounded in Hospitals and on Hospital Trains, and they have done all their work as cheerfully and with the same high courage as our men have.  We have had helping us in our nursing numbers of Canadian nurses, not only for the beautiful Canadian Hospital at Beechborough Park, but for many other Hospitals in England and France, and nurses from Australia and New Zealand.

We have had American nurses, also, but these will now be absorbed, as needed, by the American Army in France.

The records of our Medical women in the war are among the very best.  The belief that nursing was woman’s work but that medicine and surgery were not, was dying before the war, but it existed, and it was the war that gave it the final death blow.  Immediately war broke out Dr. Louisa Garrett Anderson, a daughter of our pioneer woman doctor, Dr. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, and Dr. Flora Murray formed the Women’s Hospital Corps, a complete small unit and offered it to the British Government.  It was refused but accepted by the French Government, and was established by them at Claridge’s Hotel in Paris, where it did admirable work.  Its work aroused the interest and admiration of the British Royal Army Medical Corps, and they were asked to form a Hospital at Wimereux, which afterwards amalgamated with the R.A.M.C.  Later Sir Alfred Keogh established them in Endell Street, London, where they have a Hospital of over 700 beds.  The women surgeons and doctors and staff are graded for purposes of pay in the same way as men members of R.A.M.C.

In July, 1916, the War Office asked for the services of 80 medical women for work at home and abroad, and later for 50 more.

The Women’s Service League sent a unit to Antwerp which did some excellent work, though it was there only a very short time.  The members of the unit were among the last to leave the city, escaping in the last car to cross the bridge before it was blown up.

The work of the Scottish Women’s Hospitals, organized by the Scottish Federation of the Nation Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, and initiated by Dr. Elsie Inglis, of Edinburgh, would require a volume to themselves, and American women, who have given so generously and so freely to them, know a great deal about their work.  The first unit went to Royaumont in France, and established itself at the old Abbaye there.  It stood from the beginning in the very first rank for efficiency.  A leading French expert, Chief of the Pasteur Laboratory in