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    "ocrText": "x\nMiss Mary Beard, Director\nPage Three\nSeptember 21, 1942\nMrs.\nAmerican Red Cross Nursing Service\nMiss Helen Streeter requested to be returned on October first. This\nwas a great surprise and disappointment. It seems that she had expected her fiance,\nwho is an M.D. in the army, to be sent to the Islands, but recently he has been\nquite permanently assigned to some location on the West Coast and writes urging her\nto return as soon as possible to be married. It was decided at the meeting that\nT\nMiss Streeter should wait to be replaced in the Unit before her release would be\ne\ngranted. However, just recently there has arisen a complicating factor, which she\nhad not reported as she feared another hospitalization. She has not been £ eeling\nwell for approximately ten days or two weeks now. There has been an occasional re-\nturn of her nausea and vomiting which she had previous to her severe attack of\nacute hepatitis and she has been having joint pains in her legs at night, causing\nconsiderable stiffness, which remains sometimes even during the daytime, causing\ndifficulty in walking. Whether these symptoms will increase or vanish in time is a\n/\nimport\nmatter to be seen. She was advised to be frank and to report all symptoms so that\nif care is needed it may be accorded her. So the final decision in her problem will\nhave to be left for a later date.\nMiss Mae Lowney became ill again on August 16th. She, too had\nnever recovered completely from pains in her hands, arms and legs and back, simulat-\ning not only joint pains, but muscle pains at times. She was hospitalized for eighteen\ndays, until a slight improvement in her condition was seen, and then permitted to re-\nturn to the residence for further convalescence. She is apparently gradually imp-\nroving, but very slowly as she still walks, at times, with difficulty. She comp-\nlains of a palpating sensation and a rapid pulse following any slight physical strain.\nNo actual damage to the cardiac muscle has been detected from examination. However a\nlong period of convalescence seems to be in store for her. Her month of consecutive\nillness ended on September 15th. I shall endeavor to get a written report of her\nillness to you very shortly so that the insurance company may again be notified that\nshe is entitled to payments from September 16th on. Dr. Waite has been a little too\nbusy to prepare that for me. In regard to her future plans, it has been recommended\nthat she should return to the Mainland unless Dr. Doolittle feels that she might be\nable to return to duty within sixty days, or less. I have not been able to secure\nhis opinion about that since the meeting but will let you know as soon as I can.\nMiss Lowney is rather discouraged about these prolonged signs of her disability. She\nis a very active person normally and is a very good worker and the inactivity causes\noff\nstay\nher to be quite unhappy. Although she is far from able to be assigned to duty yet,\nwe have tried to keep her busy the last week or so with typing and occasional relief\nlaboratory work. Just where she would be the happiest for a lengthly period of conva-\nlescence is difficult to decide, as her friends she has here in the Unit are stronger\nthan any Mainland attachments to which she might return.\nMiss Hazel Moores and Miss Beatrice Porter, although apparently not\nso unhappy as they were the first two or three months of their service with the Unit,\nstill desire to be returned to the Mainland as soon as they can be replaced. They\nare very willing, however, to vait for replacements. I discussed with them your state-\nment to me of August 2lst that they would be expected to remain a year. However, due\nto Dr. Arnold's statement to the group they, of course, are also asking to be released\nas soon as replacements can arrive. I feel that since these other replacements are\nlife\nhaving to be made, their requests should be granted also.\nU\nMrs. Louise Clifford is applying for only temporary employment with\nthe Office of Civilian Defense following October first, as she has been notified by\na\nexpired"
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