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    "ocrText": "1\nD\nTHE AMERICAN RED CROSS\na\nNURSING SERVICE\n<\nis,\nApplication for Enrollment\n(To be filled out entirely in applicant's handwriting and each question answered fully)\nM\nName of applicant in full Wary Thountou Davis\na\nI.\n2. Address in full, Street 31 allerton\nCity Brookline\nState mass\n34 gz2 sory SP.\nmarblehead\nno\n3. Date of\nbirth august 16,1890\nPlace\nof birth Boston, was\n4. Are you married, single or a widow? single\n5. Have you any physical defects or tendency to constitutional or pulmonary trouble?. no\nAre you a citizen of the United States? yes\nAre you physically strong and healthy? yes\n5\n6. Name educational institutions attended before entering training school, stating number of years at each and from which you\nwere graduated Trivate Schools in Woverter, mass 1893-1902 1907-09. Beverly Higle School 2yns.\nMiss Harkell's Dele. Boston 1/2yrs. School Calbany 2'2 yrs, a Garland Sch Boston 1910-11\n7.\nWhat languages other than English do you speak? German very slijetty Funel slightly\n9. adu and & n and\n8. Occupation before entering training school none.\nSchool\nO,K,\n9.\nFrom what hospital training school did you receive your diploma? n.y. Post graduate Mratteal School +Hospital\nCity\nand state newyork newyork\nDate of graduation april 1915\nFinished three years course Tib. i 916 including time locttov scarlet fever\n2.6 n.t T.\nmany Private pts.\nIO. Character of hospital: General? yes\nSpecial? NErsr, skin\nyes, Private? Pneumonia\nII. Did your training include obstetrics? yes Care of men? yes Children? yea Contagious diseases? tayh.ch not\nmeaches, tertuases\n12. Daily average number of patients in hospital during training 400 beds Length of course 3 yrs.\n13. Name and address of superintendent of training school under whom you received training miss murdoch\nBids fuell pra tically all the time\n303 East Turntith st. newy ook, newyork\n14. If your training as a nurse was received in more than one hospital, give name, location and time spent in each\n3 mos. at musyork Lying In Hospital, becond Cuve. n.y.c.\n15. Of what nursing organizations are you a member? n.y.T.g.H alumnae & no. P. H.N.\n16. Which, if any, is affiliated with the American Nurses Association? Alemanae assin.\n17. Give name and address of secretary of at least one of these organizations. miss Ella Phillips Crandall\nExce. See. national Organization for Public Health Nursing\nFiftu Car. n.4.C\n18. Are you a registered nurse? yes In what state? neulyon Date of registration aug 7.31,1916 Number 13864\n19. How and where employed since graduation:\nGive dates with months.\nName and address of employers:\nResident nurse\nmaicle, april, may1916\nSt.Faitu's Hours\nstaff nurse\nJuly,Lug. Qet.nos. 1947\nInstructure District nursing asside\nBoston. mass.\nassistant Supervisor\nDec.1917, Jay--July'18\nI.D.N.A. Borton.\n8mos. Course in Public\nhealth nursing,\nDepartment of nursing Halth,\nTeachers College. Colum Gia university\nnew yout City, 1916-17-\n(Specify for which of the following services you wish to be considered.)\n20. War service, wherever needed\nWhen available\nAre you willing to take the oath of allegiance? yes\n2\n21. Instructor, Elementary Hygiene.\n22. Public Health Nursing yes In Town and Country Nursing Service\nor for War Service\n23. Name and permanent address of nearest relative Judge Charles Thounton Davis (father)\nhand Court. court House Boston, mans\nDate\nJuly 18,1918\nSignature of Nurse vlary Thountou Davis.\nR\n8\nTo the Committee:\nThis blank is to be sent to applicant with circular letter D. M. R. 7, together with Forms D. M. R. 2, II, and A. R. C. 150.\nApplication forms (except of a nurse desiring to enroll for the Town and Country Nursing Service) after approval and endorse-\nment by Local Committee, with credentials (Forms 3 and 4), together with Forms IO and 11, should be forwarded to the Chair-\nman, National Committee on Nursing Service, American Red Cross, Washington, D. C.\nIn case the application forms of a nurse desiring to enroll for the Town and Country Nursing Service are sent to the Local\nCommittee, instead of to Washington, as instructed, such forms should be forwarded at once to Washington by the Local Com-\nmittee, from whence credentials will be procured.\nREQ.-17-2125B-20M-Nov."
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