Aberdeen Hospital located in New Glasgow and supported by the towns of New Glasgow, Stellarton, Trenton, and Westville, was first opened to patients in 1897. The first building was erected at a cost of $15,000, and had eight beds. In 1906 a second wing was added with twenty two more beds at a cost of $18,563.34. In 1914 a third addition was made, for ten more beds, a modernly equipped operating room and a concrete contagious annex, at a cost of $35,000. The total cost of the hospital as it stands today, represents an outlay of nearly $75,000, all raised by voluntary contributions.

The medical staff consists of one consulting and eighteen acting physicians, two of whom are surgeon dentists and one an occulist and aurist, while the nursing staff is composed of the superintendent, assistant superintendent, night superintendant, operating room nurse, and ten to twelve pupil nurses.

To show what a need the hospital fills, it may be mentioned that following the first year of its existence it had 3292 hospital days, and treated 122 patients, at a cost of $2,836.52. The work constantly expanded and during 1914 the number of hospital days had increased to 7510, while the patients treated numbered 385, and the expenses were $14,000, with a greater increase anticipated this and the coming years.

New Glasgow has an active Y.M.C.A. It owns the building in which it is located. It and the Salvation Army Barracks are fine structures, the former built of stone and the latter of wood, while the Catholic Sisters of Charity have a convent building and conduct the school in connection with St. John Baptist Roman Catholic church.

The town has an attractive park on the west side facing the river front. It has an active and energetic Board of Trade composed of the town's leading business and professional men. It has a theater, moving picture houses, a large number of secret societies, clubs and other organizations, all of which make its intellectual and social life profitable and pleasant.

The County Infirmary is a large building and is located on the outskirts of Stellarton. Our Lady of Lourdes Tuberculosis Hospital founded by the Catholic Sisters of Charity in 1912, is beautifully situated on an eminence on the Catholic church property at Lourdes.

The town has a fine park. The Business Men's Association is an active organization. It is the home of the 78th regiment band, which is the only band in the four towns.

Stellarton has A Young Mens' Christian Association, building. It has a large theater. The Masonic and Odd Fellows Orange C.M.B.A. lodges own large halls, and other secret societies have lodges in the town.

In Westville the Masonic, Knights of Pythias, C.M.B.A., Odd Fellows and Orange Orders have attracted halls. The town has a Salvation Army Barracks, moving picture house, fine post office, railway and bank buildings. Trenton also has a moving picture house, secret orders, social and other organizations, the Orange Order, Sons of Temperance and Masonic, the two former having halls of their own, all of which add their quota toward making the social life in these towns pleasant and profitable.

The public health of the towns are carefully guarded by energetic health officers, and sanitary rules are generally well observed. Contagious diseases are closely followed; patients are isolated and houses are disinfected. Leaflets of instruction, prepared by the provincial health officer are sent to the homes, and every intelligent effort is made to instruct people as to the fly nuisance, the disposal of garbage and other  sanitary measures, while good hygienic school conditions are insisted upon, to make the community as healthy as possible.

New Glasgow also has a competent food inspector, with power to visit all dairies and slaughter houses, which supply meat and milk, and to stop the sale of these articles if the places are not kept clean and sanitary, with the result that children's diseases are on the decline, and the general health of the population has been greatly improved.

The towns have curling, hockey, baseball, fishing, and other sporting clubs. The country round about has many beautiful drives. The scenery along the East River is charming and the roads leading to the strait shore offer to tourist a varied view of upland, hill and dale, not surpassed anywhere. Not far away also is Pictou Harbor, Pictou Landing and other resorts, where a large number of the population have cottages, or go for an outing during the summer months.

From any of the towns the hunting and fishing resorts are easily reached, and fishing tackle, camping equipments and supplies may be purchased at a very moderate price. The district known as Sheet Harbour woods embracing seven mile, ten mile, twelve and fifteen mile streams, with numerous other lakes and rivers abound in moose and deer, salmon, trout, and other game and fish. Kelly, and Little Liscombe Lakes, Big Brook, Big Rocky River and other streams, also are rich in trout and other fish. The Garden of Eden settlement, not far distant, is a center from where is reached a territory abounding in wild ducks and geese, while partridge, plover, and other small games, in addition to mink, otter and foxes offer shooting in season, not only to many local sportsmen, but also to others coming from distant towns and cities.