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Clipping from New York Times, Sunday April 20th.
JANE DELANO
To the Editor of the New York Times:
In the death of Miss Jane Delano at Base Hospital #69,
Savenay, France on April 15, America lost a superb woman, a
great organizer; and a real patrict.
Miss Delano's life was one of self-sacrifice and her
assumption of that quality began long before the real danger of
war confronted us. From a most creditable career as a trained
nurse and as Superintendent of Nurses at Bellevue, New York, she
came to the Army in 1908 in response to an appeal from the Sur-
geon General for help in reorganizing and reconstituting the
Army Nurse Corps. In this work she went forward steadily and
quietly to a most successful result and when she left in 1912
for a larger fieid of endeavor her impression on the service
abided a.s a great asset,
In turn she took over the direction of the Red Cross
Nursing Service, and her strong qualities of mind and heart
brought this service into the state which made it a force of in-
estimable worth to the country when war was declared against
4
Germany. It was her earnest forceful work, backed by her char-
ming personality, which put at our command the thousands of
splendid women who so blithely and cheerfully went to France and
England or to our camps in this country. The average soldier,
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who was the beneficiary of this great blessing, probably knows
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nothing of the fine woman who directed the procurement of the
nurses who helped him so much, but if he knew the whole story
Miss Delano might so easily get an enshrinement in his heart,
in some measure comparable to that which Florence Nightingale
got in the hearts of the Englishman in Crimea.
Miss Delano died in the service of her country, and to
one knowing her resolute, beautiful nature, it may well seem
that it is just in that way she would have elected to die. While
on an official visit to France, in her capacity as Director of
the Nursing Service, American Red Cross, she contracted middle ear
disease, which eventuated in a fatal brain abscess. Desperately
ill for some weeks, she died far from home, but surrounded in a
great army hospital by nurses and soldiers for whom she had so
generously and faithfully worked.
To those who knew her well it would seem so appropriate
that some fitting memorial, in the Red Cross Building in Washing-
ton, should mark the scene where a great spirit carried on a great
work of love and helpfulness.
FRANCIS A. WINTERS.
Brigadier General Medical Corps,
United States Army.
Washington, April 17, 1919.
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