This photograph from the collection of the Medical Services Branch of the Department of National Health and Welfare shows a nursing sister and a lay nurse caring for patients at St. Clare’s Mercy Hospital in St. John’s, Newfoundland, around 1955.
© Health Canada. Reproduced with the permission of the Minister of Public Works and Government Services Canada (2008). Library and Archives Canada, Department of National Health and Welfare Fonds, e002504629