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    "ocrText": "February 10, 1922.\nMrs. Lystra Gretter,\nVisiting Nurse Association,\nDetroit,\nMichigan.\nMy dear Mrs. Gretter:-\nDr. Anna E. Rude, Director of the Division of Hygiene of the\nChildren's Bureau, has written asking me to help her to get a number of public\nhealth nurses on the Civil Service list for positions with the Children's\nBureau. A Federal Sivil Service Examination for Consulting Public Health\nNurses is being conducted now and up to March 7th. Dr. Rude says in this\nconnection:\n\"This examination is being held in anticipation of a few appoint-\nments which it may be necessary to make in developing work under the Sheppard-\nTowner act or in connection with other work in the Children's Bureau requiring\nthe services of an expert public health nurse.\nof course you can understand that in order to efficiently\ndevelop a particular program of work under the Sheppard-Towner act it is\nnecessary that we have a splendid register from which to make appointments.\nAny assistance which you can give by calling attention to this examination\nwill be greatly appreciated.\"\nDr. Rude in talking to me over the phone said she was very\nanxious to get on to the Civil Service list some of the best public health\nnurses in the country in order to set a high standard. She hoped some of you\nwould be willing to apply for this reason although it might be unlikely that\nyou would ever consider a position in the Children's Bureau. Moreover she said\nthat there would occasionally be need of employing someone for a special study\nor investigation at a higher salary, and for this reason also she hoped some\nof the most experienced public health nurses in the country would got on to\nthe list in order that she might draw on them for such special pieces of work.\nYou understand that putting your name on the list does not in\nany way obligate you to accept a position, nor does it mean that you are applying\nfor a position. It does mean that you will be helping to set a high standard\nand will also be available for consideration when a special piece of work requires\na special person. Dr. Rude will be unable to engage anyone who is not on the\nlist and therefore wants us all to get on to it.\nI\nam sure Dr. Rude would appreciate it very mach if you would\nput this before your staff and persuade some of them to put in their applications.\nWe have all been anxious to see the Sheppard-Towner boll pass. It seems to me a\nduty now to help secure the right kind of people to put it into effect.\nSincerely yours,\negf-c\nDirector, Public Health Nursing Service."
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