98 It Happened in Iona many TB patients and the overall dread of the disease. Eighteen months later my sister was released and returned home to gradually resume a full and happy life. In 1944 the roof fell in completely when Mother became gradually ill. Eventually Dr. Brehaut was summoned. His diag¬ nosis was heart disease which necessitated her going to the Charlottetown Hospital by car that very evening. It was a day of gloom. Visits to our mother in the city hospital brought us youngsters our share of fear and put us in contact with sickness on a broad scale. That four-storey building with its corridors of sick rooms and medical personnel appeared very large to us then and soon gave us an appreciation for the gift of good health and kindly care for those not so fortunate. Mother was able to return home after a few weeks much improved but still chronically ill and greatly curtailed in her activities. Additional trips to hospi¬ tal were required from time to time and there she died in 1954 just ten years after her first major breakdown in health. >