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CORITORY
OF
1900
HAWAII
NO.
TERRITORIAL OFFICE OF CIVILIAN DEFENSE
HONOLULU, T.H.
August 9, 1943
IN REPLY REFER TO:
Miss Virginia Dunbar,
American Red Cross,
Headquarters,
Washington, D. C.
My deaar Miss Dunbar:-
I have been at Wahiawa Emergency Hospital for 3 weeks now and
feel that I should write you about the situation, since Mrs.
Douglas asked for constructive criticism.
On my arrival I had a conference with every nurse, these meet-
ings plus my personal observation and reactions, prompt this
letter.
There is a great deal of dissatisfaction among the nurses and
many are planning to resign. This morning Miss Griep and Miss
Shields resigned and state that others, at Sacred Heart Hospi-
tal, who came when they did, are doing likewise. Miss Rode-
macher and Mrs. Allen (Clark) have also resigned and there are
at least three others who are contemplating it.
The main reason given for these resignations is that there is
so little to do and therefore no satisfaction in their work.
I, too, was under the impression, from my conference in Wash-
ington, that we had 250 patients and 68 nurses, but in reality
our highest census is about 30 and there are no tuberculosis
patients as yet. This means the nurses have become very lax-
and lost interest.
Our nurses are receiving letters from their friends at home,
who state that the conditions are so bad that they have to
close parts of the hospital for lack of nursing personnel and
they feel they will be ashamed to go home and tell them what
they really did.
Another point is our nurses are not acceptable and feel that
they do not amount to anything - mainly because they are not in
uniform. It is hard for them to see why they cannot wear the
Red Cross uniform, when they wear the cap and insignia. On the
boat the nurses with me, talked about it constantly. The Army
and Navy nurses went everywhere and had good quarters, while
our group were six decks below and had no status whatsoever.
Personally a uniform means nothing to me and I was glad not to
have to wear one.
There is no activity of any kind at Wahiawa and we are not even
able to go to Schofield camp - where some of the girls would like
to play golf or go horseback riding. The first group who came
over, got army passes in California, but the subsequent groups
have not been able to get them here and did not receive them in
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