ABSTRACT
This book, which has lately appeared with a preface of high commendation by Mr. F. Treves, cannot fail to interest all London Hospital men. There will be many who remember Mr. Grenfell as House-Surgeon, and as one of our best football players, as a man of daring and resource, and during the last few years a still larger number have learnt to associate his name with that splendid mission work to the North Sea Fishermen which has accomplished so much good at such insignificant cost in actual money. Mr. Grenfell, for the first time, carried the benefits of medical treatment to every rocky haven of the Labrador coast, and his work formed an invaluable adjunct to the labours of the Missionaries who have devoted themselves to the poverty-stricken English and Eskimo fishermen in that inhospitable land, where, as Mr. Treves writes, “Among fogs and icebergs a handful of determined men are trying to hold their own against hostile surroundings, and to earn a living in defiance of dreary odds.”
