AN APPARITION IN A HOSPITAL.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 61, 10 September 1908, Page 7

AN APPARITION IN A HOSPITAL.

Thq Matrons' Council of Great Britain and Ireland gave a- complimentary dinner at the Gaiety Restaurant recently to Miss Isla Stewart, its president, in recognition of her public services and to mark the completion of her 21 years' work as matron of St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Mrs Bedford Fenwick presided.

Miss Stewart, replying to the toast of her health, said that she had had experiences that were full of human interest, hut she would content herself with telling of one that seemed to be move than human. Some years ago, in one of her wards, lay a little boy who was dying of hip disease. He was an orphan with only one brother, a -sailor then serving on the China station, of whom he was very fond. One morning the boy told her that he had had such a happy night, as he had dreamt that his brother was with him at his bedside. When the night nurse came to report" to her, she said that she had had a curious experience. When looking along the ward during the iiight'shehad been astonished to see a sailor in the ward beside the boy's bed. Re- i sent ing the intrusion, she had gone i

to the bed to enquire into the matter, when she found there, was nobody there, but twice a f towards ' during the slight sha had seen the same apparition; At last she turned down the gas and altered the position of some After; this she .did not f-ee vfc again.