Rumours that bread ration is going down, that money we sent to Shamshuipo has been returned.
Started Patients' Card Index system at office.
Dr says Mabel is progressing all right.
Nan Grady was 22 on the 18th.
Diary pages from this date
Since coming into Stanley, Matron E.M. Dyson has arranged to receive smuggled messages keeping her in touch with conditions at Bowen Road Military Hospital. Today she gets one telling her that after a long 'lean' period, things are improving. They'd been short of drugs but now they have a supply - Dyson thinks this is due to Rudolf Zindel of the Swiss Red Cross.
Source:
Report by Miss Anna May Waters Nurse with the Canadian Forces at Hong Kong, as given on board the MS Gripsholm, November 1943, point 63.
Spence
Mrs Raymond
((As it's a Sunday, probably J R L Spence the Missionary, not W Spence the Marine Engineer. Not sure which Mrs Raymond he is referring to.)))
Lovely day weather.
Went for swim.
Japs have taken turbines from Kowloon power station so they have no lights over there.
I should have been in hospital tonight - the blood count was bad and Smalley's certificate describes me as having "acute anaemia" I saw Greaves' certificate too - Haemoglobin 52%. Red Corpuscles 2,270,000 in place of the usual 5 million. I fixed up a bed yesterday and got all ready but I heard at 11 that they had to admit an emergency case - poor old Bellamy has a septic foot and is threatened with general septicaemia.
So I'll go in on Tuesday the 22nd and I'm going to feed up when I'm there even though a tin of "bully" costs H$10 and 6 oz Carnation milk H$7. Rest and extra food will soon put me right I'm sure.
A.I.A.W B.B.