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    "ocrText": "3.\nlost both legs. Two or three French women were\nalso ill and occupying the same infirmary as the\nsick nurses. There is a great lack of quarters/and\nMiss Van Ingan (Chief Nurse) told me that no other\narrangement seems possible. The nurses are quartered\nboth in the hospital building, which was an old Frech\nschool for boys, and in a convent, the upper floor of\nwhich is still occupied by the Sisters This convent\nis about two blocks from the administration building\nand opens intol.a beautiful garden where many of the\nspring flowers were almost ready to Blossom and\nprimroses were already in bloom. No arrangements\nwere made for keeping the gate of the garden locked\nat night and no guard had been provided. This\nseemed an unfortunate situation in a city full of\nFrench and American soldiers. The water supply is\nmost inadequate, practically no water running during\nthe\nday. It is necessary to store water at night\nfor the next day's cleaning. There is a very limited\nsupply of hot water and the only heat provided in any\nportion of the hospital is by small stoves burning\nvery poor soft coal which much be constantly attended\nto in order to secure any heat at all. There is very\nlittle heat in the nurses lormitories and none in the\nroom where I slept. The nurses seem accunstomed to\nthis and do not complain. A tool house adjoining the\nconvent had been converted by the Red Cross into a\nmost attractive tea-room, where tea is served every\nafternoon by the nurses in turn. Electric heaters,\nstationary wash-basins and other conveniences have\nbeen provided by the Red Cross. No recreation hall\nhas ever been provided, but as the nurses are in\nBrest, there are occasional entertainments and in-\nvitations to dances. At this time of year it rains\nalmost constantly. Fortunately the two days I was in\nBrest were comparatively pleasant raining only for a\nportion of the day Miss Miller, a graduate of\nGarfield was acting as Miss Van Ingan assistant.\nArmy Hospital 33 Col. Edie called for me early\nBase gan 11. 1414\nSaturday morning and took me out to Pontanazen. Miss\nJones, Chief Nurse of this hospital was at Nice on\nher vacation. Miss Helm met me at once and we made\nfairly complete rounds of the wards. They have I44\nnurses living in what are known as inside and outside\nquarters. The inside portion of the hospital is\nlocated in the old French barracks and the administra-\ntion offices are in what was originally the barrack\nhospital. The nurses assigned to duty in the inside\nquarters live in the convent attached to the barrack\nhospital. This was a most attractive old building\nwith a garden and comfortably furnished, much of the\nfurniture being contributed by the Red Cross. The\noutside quarters were built on the barrack plan by"
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