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    "ocrText": "I\nI\n-5-\nS\nCzecho Slovakia, Austria, Serbia on to Constantinople, thence to Greece,\nAlbania, Montenegro, the Dalmatia Coast, Italy and back to France.\nVisits to Hospitals in several countries looking for suitable\ninstitutions to which schools of nursing sponsored by the American Red\n+\nCross might be attached, revealed unspeakable distress, misery and want,\nthose taro Red Cross nurses working in isolated towns under unparalleled\nhardships disclosed heartbreaking and children. Everywhere\nrefugees - in Constantinople 80,000 driven out of the Crimea with the\ndefeat of Wrangels Arny, packed in boats of all descriptions from which\nthere seemed no escape, cold wet, hungry, ill - they tossed about on the\nBosphorous waiting - waiting, for the help that to many never cane.\nConferences with all sorts and conditions of people. A delightful day\nwith President and Miss Masaryka at their country home near Prague, a\nhalf hour with King Boris in Sofia, Princes and Princesses driven out of\nRussia, Prime Ministers and paupers, it was all one to Miss Hay. To the\nindividual problem of each she at least brought sympathetic understanding\nand often constructive assistance. Because of her experience in Kief in\n1914, she was particularly sympathetic and generous where Russiens were\nconcerned. Many a good American dollar found its way from her purse\nto the outstretched hand of a Russian refugee.\nTo a Hospital in Constantinople, opened and maintained by the\nAmerican Red Cross to meet the emergency of the Crimean debacle, she\nwent spending her only day of rest, Sunday, bathing and otherwise\nministering to the sick, some of whom had not been able to remove\nthe clothing in which they had escaped days before, nearly all vermin\ninfested. She seemed never to tire in her effort to help those un-\nfortunate victims of a cruel circumstance.\nfound during this trip\nRecommendations based upon the study of\nresulted among other important protects in two schools\nof nursing in Pàland, the resumption of the school in Sofia, and the exten-\nsion of Child Welfare work in several countries. Little by little the\nprograns tapered off until May 1922 when the serious illness of her brother\ncalled to this country.\nIn 1925 after a few years of respite from active nursing work, she\nbecoming\nrestless and eager to return to a more active lifesend accepted the\nposition of Director of the Courses of Instruction in Home Hygiene and Care\nof the Sick in the Branch Office of the Red Cross in St. Louis, Missouri.\nProceeding on her way she was overtaken in Chicago with the malady from\nwhich she never recovered and from which she finally died in Savanna,\nIllinois, on November 25, 1932. Mrs. Elsbeth Vaughan, long associated\nwith her in this country and abroad, referring to the last rites wrote -\n\"The day, Sunday, was clear and cold but a sunshiny one and it seemed as\nif the whole town of Savenna was paying tribute to her. The Clergyman\nchose most appropriately for his text - \"And the King's Daughter was all\nglory within.\"\nSpare in build, wiry and energetic she seemed never to tire. Moving\nrapidly she was always well shead of those with whom she was walking.\n2\n8"
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