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President, Alumae Association
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Dear Presidents
The Alumae Association of the Boston City Hospitel School of Sursing
will, I think, be particularly interested in the subject of this letter.
As
of course you all know, Dorothy C. Morse, Rachel H. St. Pierre and
Mary Ann Sullivan of your school volunteered to serve with the Amorican
Red Cross-Harverd Field Hospital for communicable disecses in England.
You have probably followed the interesting experiences the nurses in
that group are having in Salisbury now. Perhaps you do not know how
veluable their work is. The British Ministry of Health has been most
complimentery in regard to it. As an example of its value, if a single
case of typhus fever should appear in England, it is this Unit which mould
be sent by the Ministry of Health to take measures shich there is every
reason to believe would control the terrible menace to the people of
Eggland.
Te are all very proud of the work of this group of Red Cross nurses.
We hear of it from many different groups of people and alrays with great
respect and admiration for the nurses. It has been decided both by Harvard
University and by the Red Cross that the work of the Unit should continue
and it is hoped many of the present group will decide to remain with it.
There could be no more important war work snyshere than this.
You will remember the tragedy of the torpedoiggaarid shipwreck of the
S.S. Maasden and s.S. Vigrid last June, and that five of these nurses
and their housemother, Mrs. Ruth Breckinridge, lost their lives then.
Dorothy Morse wes in a lifeboat which mas never found. Rachel St. Pierre
was rescued after twelve days at sea in en open boat. She is now re-
covered 'rom her injuries and is teaching the Red Cross Home Hursing
Course.
Friends of Mrs. Breckinridge have manted to give a memorial to her and
have felt that the kind of memorial she would have liked best yould be
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a sum of money to be placed with the americon Red Cross which would con-
stitute a loan fund for the returned nurses of the Red Cross-Harvord Unit.
No one is being asiced to give any money to this memorial, but friends of
the Unit are being told about it so that if they wish to have a part in
building up this fund, the opportunity will be given to them to do 80.
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