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    "ocrText": "E\n<\nApril 22, 1942\nPresident, Alunnae Association\nCambridge Hospital School of Nursing\nCambridge, Massachusetts\nDear President:\nThe Alumae Association of the Cambridge Hospital School of Nursing will,\nI thinks, be particularly interested in the subject of this letter. As\nof course you all know, Lillian Evans, from your School, volunteered to\nserve with the Anerican Red Field Hoepital for communicable\ndiseases in England. You have probably followed the intereating experiences\nthe nurses in that group are having in Salisbury now. Perhaps you do not\nInnow how valuable their work is. The British Ministry of Health has boen\nnost complimentery in regurd to it. As an example of its vilue, if a\nsingle case of typhus fever should appear in Ingland, it is this Unit\nwhich would be sent by the Ministry of Health to take measures which there\nis overy reason to believe would control the terrible menace to the\npeople of England.\nThe are all very proud of the work of this group of Red Cross nurses. tle\nhear of it from mony different groups of people and always with great\nrespect and admiri tion for the nursés. It has been decided both by\nHarvard Univorsity and by the Red Cross that the sork of the Unit should\ncontinue and it is hoped many of the present group will decide to remain\nwith ib. There could be no nore important war work anjuhere than this.\nYou will romember the tragedy of the torpedoing and shipwreck of the\nS.S. Maasion and s.S. Vigrid last June, and you will remember too, I\nthink, that five of these nurses and their housemother, Mrs. Buth Breckin-\nridge, lost their lives thon. their iffeboet Hent be pieces after the\nHenaden terpedoed.\nFriends of Mrs. Breckinridge have vanted to give a memorial to her and\nhave felt that the kind of memorio ahe would have liked best would be\na sum of money to be placed with the American Red Cross which would con-\nstitute a loen fund for the returned nurses of the Red Cross-Harvard Unit.\nNo one is being asked to give any money to this memorial, but friends of\n8\nthe Unit are being told about it so that if they wish to have a part in\nbuilding up this fund, the opportunity will be given to then to do so.\n5\n8\n8"
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