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    "ocrText": "AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS\nMountain Division Inter-Office Letter\nTo\nClara D. Noyes, Acting Director,\nDenver, Colo., January 8, 1919.\nDepartment of Nursing, A.R.C., Washington, D. C.\nFrom\nJohn W. Morey, Manager, Mountain Division.\nSubject\nBLANCH INA LEWIS.\nMy\nMiss Welch has referred to me your letter of the 31st\nultimo regarding the case of Miss Blanch Ina Lewis. It is very\napparent that the Executive Committee of the Pike's Peak Chapter, with\nheadquarters at Colorado Springs, Colorado, is determined that the\ncase of Miss Lewis shall not be dropped without a full investigation\nand ruling by the Department of Nursing at National headquarters upon\nthe points involved. It is also apparent that the prestige of the\nAmerican Red Cross in the jurisdiction of the Pike's Peak Chapter has\nsuffered materially by reason of the clerical error or oversight which\nresulted in Miss Lewis being permitted to sail instead of her departure\nbeing delayed until a full investigation and fair and impartial ruling\ncould be made.\nIn your letter to Miss Welch you state:- \"I have not attempt-\ned to enter into the circumstances as presented by either you or the\nChapter. If I were to accept statements of the Chapter, I should have\nto believe that not only Miss Lewis but you were seriously at fault.\"\nIn going into this matter, of course, you should not accept\nthe statements of the Chapter without considering tho se statements in\nconjunction with the statements forwarded by Miss Welch and by myself\nin previous correspondence, particularly to the effect that Miss Welch\nwas not advised of the emergent need at Colorado Springs, but that she\nhad been definitely and finally advised by official communication from\nWashington that nurses who had given their date of availability as within\na specified time from the date of the official order from Washington should\nnot be assigned to cases I believe I'am safe in stating, however, that\nhad Miss Welch been advised of the emergent nature of the situation at\nColorado Springs the blanket instructions received from Washington would\nhave been disregarded in that one instance, as I believe she would have\nbeen justified in doing; however, the point is not what might have happened\nbut what did happen and the circunstances surrounding that happening.\nI believe that the entire matter is now up to Washington;\nthat the Division is not in a position to do anything and should not be\nexpected to take any further action in the matter, being a party to the\nunfortunate controversy.\nWe believe and strongly urge that this matter should not be\npermi tted to stand as it is but that your Department, or, as you suggest\nin your letter, some higher authority, should make a thorough investigation\nof this case and should rule upon the points involved. We believe this\nto be only fair to the Mountain Division and to the Pike's Peak Chapter.\nIn view of the fact that my request that communications in\nregard to this matter be forwarded thru Division headquarters was dis-\nregarded in the first instance, I believe future correspondence on this\nsubject should be carried on directly between your Department and the Pike's"
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