ENGLAND'S ANSWER TO THE CALL
and camps were scattered around the town, and the restrictions with regard to the men being on leave in the town were very great. This may account in some degree for the fact that the largest number of men using the Room in a month was 1688, not so high a monthly figure as in other places. But excellent work was done and good cases of healing were reported from these Rooms.
A man who had used the Room while stationed at Aldershot, sent a card from France saying that he was grievously wounded and asked for help. The doctors said he could not be moved, and that a severe operation would have to be performed. Treatment was given, and after a few days, he was able to be moved to a hospital in England, and in less than a month he was dismissed without an operation, and wrote, saying:
“I cannot tell you how wonderful it has all been to me, and I should like the doctors who attended me in France to see me now.”
Much of this sort of work was done for the men from the time the Rooms were first opened, and large numbers were kept in touch with, letters and papers being sent to them at frequent intervals. They wrote with great gratitude and appreciation of the friendly interest shown in their welfare.
DOVER
In the summer of 1917 the work began at Dover, which, owing to its exposed position on the southeast coast of England, was subject to constant air raids and to bombardments from the sea. The military
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