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    "ocrText": "file\nDUPIICATE COPY\nAMERICAN RED CROSS\nVladivostok\nSeptember 1 1919\nTo:\nMiss Clara D. Noyes\nActing Director, Dept. of Nursing\nWashington, D.C.\nFrom: Department of Nursing\nEastern Division, Siborian Com.\nRe:\nMiss Helen Kingsbury, A.R.C. Nurse 29452\nBefore you receive this letter you will probably have a cable that\nMiss Helen Kingsbury, A.R.C. Nurse 29452, has departed from Vladivostok for\nAmerica.\nMiss Kingsbury, as you know, came into the Service from Honolulu\nthrough the Honolu7u Red Cross Chapter. She did generaly duty for a number\nof months, and was assigned as Chief Nurse of Russian Island Hospital June\n8,\n1919. She was transferred to Vladivostok Hospital, as Chief Nurse,\nJune 25, 1919.\nMiss Kingsbury's resignation was accepted on Saturday August 30, to\ntake effect immediately, as she requested. It was the result of my action\nin assigning her to Harbin where I planned to have her work under Miss Vashti\nBartlett, Chief Nurse, in the cholera epidemic. Miss Kingsbury did not feel\nthat she wished to go to Harbin. Her service has not been at all satisfactory\nin Vladivostok Hospital. In fact, her lack of adaptability for institutional\nwork has been the subject of record since February, as seen by the attached\ncopy of a letter from Dr. W.B.Baldwin, then Superintendent of Vladivostalc\nHospital.\nMiss Kingsbury's appointment to Chief Nurse work was made prior to my\ncoming. From the beginning I felt that she was not fitted for the work, but\nwas quite anxious to take no radical step so soon after I arrived. I have\nwatched her work for two months with the result that I have come to the con-\nclusion that our work has been greatly hampered because of - (1) Her lack of\nloyalty to Department of Nursing; (2) Misconstruction of orders from the\nDepartment of Nursing; (3) Her nervous temperament; (4) Her lack of co-\noperation in regard to the School for Nurses Aids; (5) Unsatisfactory ethical\nrelation with the nurses serving under her, especially in regard to the fact\nthat she discussed everything with her nurses to the general detriment of the\nnursing service.\nAside from the foregoing statements, I feel that I can say unqualifiedly\nthat Miss Kingsbury is tired out and has worked very hard while with the\nSiberian Commission. Attached you will find her efficiency report.\nMiss Mary H. Bethel, A.R.C. Nurse 5643, has been appointed to succeed\nMiss Kingsbury, and things are already adjusting themselves.\nErma L. Tittman\nChief Nurse, Eastern Division\nALT.TI"
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