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    "ocrText": "February 12, 1916.\nMrs. Dudley P. Allen,\n482 The Arcade,\nCleveland, Ohio.\nMy dear Mrs. Allen:\nMiss Boardman referred your letter of February 3 to me for investi-\ngation and reply. I found it necessary to write several letters in order to\nmake certain of the exact conditions, which accounts for the delay in my an-\nswer.\nWe had two nurses sailing on the Steamer \"Rotterdam\" which left Hol-\nland December 11, 1915. One of these nurses had been on duty for nearly a year\nand a half, first with our unit at Pau, France, where she was in charge of the\noperating-room and later at La Pame, Belgium. This nurse was granted leave\nof absence from her hospital in New York City where she had been Chief Operat-\ning-Room Nurse for a number of years and was obliged to return to the United\nStates on account of the great need of her service in this hospital. She is\nwell known to me personally and has had a most excellent record in Europe. The\nmarse to whom I refer is Miss Emogene E. Miles, whose work has not only been\nsatisfactory to me but has been highly commended by the Medical Director of\nthe unit under whom she served and various officials connected with the hos-\npital.\nThe other Red Cross nurse sailing on the Rotterdam was Miss Reba J.\nTaylor who was assigned to duty in Paignton, England, in October 1914 and who\nserved in that hospital continuously from that time until her relief from duty\nabout two months ago on account of illness. For a time she was unable to\ntravel, but as there seemed no hope of her final recovery it was decided to\nsend her to America. She was taken to Falmouth, England, by members of our\nunit on duty in Paignton and was ill during the entire voyage to the United\nStates. She came to Washington after her arrival in New York and has since\ndied.\nI have written to Miss Miles for a statement and have just received\nher letter in which she says that she and Miss Taylor were the only Red Cross\nnurses on the Rotterdam, that Miss Taylor was ill during the entire journey\nand remained inher stateroom. In order to avoid being conspicuous, Miss Miles\ntells me that she wore no portion of her Red Cross uniform on shipboard and\nthat so far as she knows very few knew of her connection with the Red Cross.\nShe also tells me that she did not know of any illness on shipboard, nor was"
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