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        "logicalDate": "1944-09-22",
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    "ocrText": "B\nu\nS\nMiss Dunbar\nSeptember 22, 1944\nMrs. Vaughan\nSara Gertrude Bush\nG\nMiss Sara Gertrude Bush is an enrolled Red Cross nurse and her badge\ne\nnumber is 20,614. She is 56 years of age.\nMiss Bush graduated from the Chester County Hospital School of Nursing,\nWest Chester, Pennsylvania, in 1913. Her experience following graduation\nT\n5\nwas -\n1913-15 Private duty\n1915-17 Asst. Supt., East 55th St. Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio\n1917-18 Industrial nursing, Cleveland, Ohio\nFor the last four or five years she has served as chief nurse, Division\nof Public Health Nursing, ohio State Department of Health, in Columbus.\nThe records indicate that Miss Bush has had two years of college and has\nher cettificate in public health. She taught school before graduating\nfrom her school of Nursing.\nYou may be interested in the following excerpts from letters dated many\nyears ago.\n\"Miss Bush first/served under the Red Cross during the war. She\nwas in France and was released from war service with the following\nefficiency report - health, efficiency, adaptability, reliability\n-\ngood. Miss Alice Fitzgerald in one of her reports speaks in high\nterms of the service rendered by Miss Bush while in France.\n\"She has also served as Red Cross public health nurse in Clarion\nCounty, Pennsylvsnia. There is no record of this service in her\nfolder filed at national headquarters.\" (The date of this letter\nis April 16, 1923)\nIn the same month in the same year the following was written to Miss\nElmira W. Bears, American Child Health Association, 370 Seventh Avenue, N\nNew York City -\n\"Miss Fox asked me to reply to your letter of April 13 regarding\nMiss S. Gertrude Bush and to say that her servicer in Clarion\nCounty was distinctive from the viewpoint of organization. Miss\nBush did succeed in making public health nursing popular and\nbuilding up an organization which was alive, interested and did\nfunction. She lacked, however, the ability to carry out the super-\nvision of her nurses regarding technicalities and details of their\n2\nwork.\n(Mrs.) Elsbeth H. Vaughan\nAssistant Director, Nursing Service\nEHV:SD"
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