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    "ocrText": "-2-\nThere have been, approximately, ten thousand five hundred Red Cross nurses in\nservice over-seas, and the total number of nurses employed in the war in all\nis twenty--five thousand two hundred and forty-two. The credit of this\nservices splendid army of front line fighters in the ranks against death and disease the is\ndue to the group of devoted and able administrators of whom Miss Delano was\nrecognized head.\nMiss Delano's greatest gift was undoubtedly her ability to cooperate, with\nand the magnanimity with which she trusted her subordinates and associated\nthe responsibility for their tasks. She carried throughout her work the prin-\nciples She cooperated to the utmest with the Committee on Nursing of the\nof decentralized responsibility which made the Red Cross efficient Council in the\nwar. of National Defense, and thus this Committee and the National Committee on Nurs-\nof the Red Cross were able to function without the slightest conflict through-- she\ning out all and retained the confidence profession in leaders others is to be\nmenths of war. In proportion as she reposed\ntheir confidence and loyalit. The nursing\nwon counted fortunate in having for so many years as one of its recognized service a\ndeveloped retained the spirit of energetic initiative with which she had begun\nwoman a sympathy, tolerance and largeness of view, and who, at the her same work. time,\nwhose practical experience in the most dangerous fields of its\nwith snow-white hair, the eyes radiant with energy and hope, - will remain with\nThe memory of that commanding presence, - the womanly face crowned\n4\nher friends and associates in the American Red Cross and elsewhere. Equally\nvivid will be her recerd upon the page of history as protagonist in the chief struggle\nmemorial is the administration from her room in the American Red Cross at Washing-\nwhich created and maintained the standards of American nursing. Her\nW\nton of the greatest army of relief ever mobilized.\nH. M. MacCracken."
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