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    "ocrText": "COPY\n=\nPoradna \"Nasim Detim\"\nKinsky Palace,\nStaronestske Nam., Prs\nCzechoslowakia.\nDear Miss Evans,\nSo long I have meant to write you! and I wonder if you ever\ncan forgive the for not writing before. A few teeks ago I sent a letter to\nMiss Wiltse as Chairman of the \"West Side Scholarship\" and I suppose you have\nseen that - at least I hoped you would learn through that of the kind of work\nI am doing, i.e., have been doing. On withdrawal of the ARC the whole\nprogram was taken over by the Ministry of Health of this government and I am\nleft here in Prague for a fem weeks as Consulting Public Health Nurse or\nAdvisory P.H.N. in the new Department. A meeting of the Committee took place\nthe other day when the policies and routines were definitely decised on,\nthe 21 child health centers willbe continued on practically the same lines\nas they have been, the same personnel being retained. It is quite remarkable\nwe think, that after only the one year's demonstration all of the centers are\nbeing continued. I should say all but one which is closed because of\npeculiar dissensions growing out of the fact that the town objects to the arrea\ngement.\nIn 15 of the 20 centers we have graduate nurses from the\nschool here in Prague or a school in Vienna, and we have very good nurse\nto supervise the nursing side of the work from headquarters. She is also\na graduate of the School in Prague and is selected to be sent to the U. S.\nby the International Health Board for a year's study beginning next\nFebruary.\nPrague is so interesting as is also the whole country.\nMy work has been that of Nursing Field Supervisor, Miss Pansy Besom of\nBoston being the Director, so I've had x opportunity to become fairly well\ncquainted with the country. It is very fertile and there are many\nindustries, textile, glass, porcelain, sugar, etc, and there are coal,\nsilver and some stone mines. So there should be no misery of poverty,\nin the country, but the last few years have been so upsetting to organiza-\ntion that there is a good deal of just such misery, and consequently a\n1 rge `ield of Social Medical work such as this is.\nIt is so interesting to study a little bit the history of\nthe country of which there is a great deal. The Czechs are such arient\nadmirers of their past glory, you get impatient with them sometimes and\nwish they would put more effort on progress of the present day, but they\nare making really good strides considering the newness of their government,\nand the strangeness here of public welfare service in general. Since the\nwar some very good institutions have made a s'art, but they lack energy.\nI enclose a questionnaire which came a few weeks ago.\nBest wishes to you and all my good friends. I have meat\nto write Miss Crocker, but so long a time has slipped by, I feel alrost\nashamed to make a start.\nSincerely yours,\nSent in for our filus 1-22\n(sgd) RACHEL TORRANCE\nby Mrs Evans any"
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