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March 30, 1920
Miss Eve L. Robertson,
Newman,
Illinois.
My dear Miss Fobertson:
In reply to your letter of March 27th, may I state that Mies
Lucy Minnigerode, Superintendent, Nurse Corps, U.S. Public Health Service,
was one of the first mirses to be enrolled in the American Red Cross Thars-
ing Service. Since her graduation from Bellevue Hospital Training School,
New York City, she has filled many responsible positions such as Superin-
teuient of the Savannah Hospital, Savannah, Georgia, Superintendent of
Hursoa of Columbia Hospital for Womon and Children, Washington, D. C.
When war was declared in 1914, and the United States was nou-
tral, Miss Minnigerodo was one of the mirses assigned to duty in Pussia
under the Red Cross, where she remained until such time as it was found
advisable to withdraw the nurses.
After the United States entered the war, and while Miss Min-
nigerode was holding the position of Superintendent of Marson, Columbia
Hospital, she gave two hours a day, volunteer service, in the Department
of Nursing, American Red Cross.
During the latter part of 1917, she
resigned her position and came to Red Cross Headquarters to do special
work in assigning nurses to foreign service, other than under the Army.
By way of explanation, may I state that the Red Cross haide from supply-
ing the military establishment with approximately seventoon thousand
nurses, also assigned in the neighborhood of six hundred mirses to Iu-
rope to do public heal th work. This WELL the piece of work which Miss
Hinnigerode helped to make possible. She also assisted me in the or-
ganization of four Base Hospital Units, #114, 115, 116, and 117, the
nursing personnel for which was selected by reason of special experience
such as psychiatry, etc.
During the influenza epidomic In 1918 Miss Minnigerode or-
ganized the nursing personnel of the Emergency Hospital in Washington.
Following this work, she was selected as Superintendent of the Nurse Corps,
U.S. Public Health Service. The results of her year's work have proven
that her ability as an organizer and Chief Nurse, and a good many of us
feel that no one but Miss Minnigerode could have accomplished what she
has done in sb short a time.
It is rather difficult for us to give a complete statement
of the valuable service Miss Minnigerode has rendered, but I hope that this
will be of assistance to you.
Very truly yours,
AGD/B
Director, Department of Threin
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