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    "ocrText": "2tt)\nMiss Mary Beard, Director\nPage Two\nSeptember 21,1942\nM\nAmerican Red Cross Nursing Service\nBoth Miss Peterson and I had had conferences with Miss Louthan to try to help her\nto adjust to conditions but we had been unsuccessful. Consequently she asked to\nbe released on October first. We received a written request for release from her,\na copy of which I believe she sent to you. As far as being of any vital aid to the\nUnit, she had been none. She had been assigned to the Linen Room during the past\nL\n0\ntwo weeks of her duty here in order to have her on duty at all. Consequently at\ne\nThey\ncopy\nT\nthe beginning of last week when they were short of a nurse for convoy duty to the\nMainland, and sent in a very urgent call for help, Mr. Houghton and Dr. Arnold and\nI discussed the situation and decided it was entirely advisable to send her as a\n5\nconvoy nurse at that time. Mr. Houghton stated that he felt that he could take the\nC\nresponsibility of releasing her before her six months period was up with the A.R.C.\ne\nMiss Lambert from Wahiawa has been advised by Dr. McKee there that she\nshould return to the Mainland on account of her sinus condition, which is constant-\n/\nly aggravated by the Island climate. She has written a resignation requesting a. re-\nlease due to this physical condition, the copy of which I believe Miss Clark will\nsend the\nto you. Miss Lambert has been doing very good work and regrets having to leave\nUnit. I understand that Miss Clark is very sorry to see her go.\nDue to the pressing need recently for convoy nurses, it may be con-\nsidered advisable to release Miss Lambert also before October first for convoy duty.\ncopy\nThis, too, was discussed and decided to be advisable if it might be necessary.\nTo complete the report of Wahiawa problems, Miss Louise Cinquini has\nrequested to be permitted to work at Waipahu plantation hospital. Since they were\nin need of nurses and her fiance is also there, she suggested this change of her ser-\nvice some months ago. It was decided to grant her request on the condition that she\nreturn to Wahiawa to serve at time of blitz. Incidentally Miss Cinquini has been off\nduty now for over two weeks. Previous to that time she was serving here at Sacred\nHearts Hospital for a week of relief duty, at which time we noted that she did not\nappear strong. Dr. Fred Irwin and Dr. V.C. Waite sent her back to Wahiawa with the\nthe\nadvice that she should continue to rest as she apparently was still suffering from\nthe effects due to her attack of acute hepatitis. Miss Clark reported at this meet-\ning that Miss Cinquini is still off duty but gaining in weight and improving. She\nwill send to you the Doctor's report of her illness so that the used insurance consecutive company may\nbe notified about this recent disability, as she has already up a\nmonth of her ill-time during which the A.R.C. was to take care of her.\nMiss Peterson, I believe, has kept you informed about Miss Ferguson\nand her problems. During the month of August she was off duty from the 12th through\nthe 15th, with an acute sinus condition again. Dr. J.W. Holmes, the Ear-Nose-Throat\nspecialist to whom she went for advice this time, prescribed x-ray therapy and ad-\nvised that she should not be around patients as she herself was too susceptible to\ninfection in her sinus tract. Enclosed you will find a. copy of the statement Dr.\nHolmes recently wrote to aid her in her release. From August 16th she has had to\nbe assigned to Central Supply, at which work she is only moderately satisfactory.\nConsequently, she is seeking to be released on October first. This release was\ngranted at this past meeting due to the fact that she has never been considered of\nany great value to the Unit. However, they did stipulate that she should apply for\n(return immediately and, if possible, fill the role of a convoy nurse.\nu\na"
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