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of nurses to "hold the fort" and at present we plan to move in when the
British move out. Then, after becoming a part of the "MorskQi" Compound"
I
we may be able to take over the entire hospital group by putting nurses
on duty in the various wards- - you can see how difficult the situation is.
If this plan can be brought. to bear we will have about eigh t hundred
beds in all.
While I have been looking after the administrative
-
work, Miss Bridge, a Columbia graduate, has been organizing a training
school for Russian Nurses, which 1 fear will never develop into anything
permanent, because of the shifting population and lack of real love for
the work. We have a staff of twentye- seven A.R.C. Nurses thirty-five
Russian Aids.
My young Commanding Officer, just out of college after
an interview with the Medical Director, Eastern Division, rushed into the
office, face beaming, and greatly excited, exlcaimed "Dr. Bouvier says
our hospital is the best organized hospital of the Siberian Commission!"
Morskai Hospital,
A.R.C. Section
22nd November, 1919.
"Why the difference in dates?!
On can hardly explain. I have lived years this past
three weeks. Did I know Russia and its suffering! - No! Things are
just developing.
While writing this letter I received orders to vacuate
the Refugee Hospital andmove at onee to the Morskoi Hospital; prepare for
admitting 150 wounded from the front; in two days our hospital was ready for
work and 153 patients moved in, fed and cared for. Operation starting
on
the third day, with O.R. in full force. You my say - you moved into a
hospital, yes; but the hospital did not have one bit of equipment not even
a chair. Just as we were finding a few minutes to organize - the Revolution
came November 16th.
The Czechs issued a proclamation declaring the Kolchak
Regime intolerable and asking for freedom and power to act in Siberia or be
immediately repatriated to zecheSlovakia. This proclamation was published
in
the mapers of Vladivostok. On Monday November 17th the "Zemstvo Party"
reached the point Of open action. Yakusheff, prominent in the pre-Kolchak
Regime forms the Siberian Constituent Directorate with General Gaida in command
and the 2 emstvo flag is hoisted over General Gaida's train in the railway yeards.
5
Gaida opened recruiting stations near his train and both
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