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6. sixty nurses. The hotel is under French management and leased by the Red Cross; about twenty minutes from the Red Cross office, but gives excellent comodation for the nurses at nominal cost. We had telephoned to A.R. C Military Hosp No. 2 that we would be there in the afternoon. The Chief Nurse, Miss Edie was absent when we arrived and the first person I met was Blanche Horner from New York. The second surprise was to find sitting in the hall near the lobby, Miss Dwyer of the A.N.C. Miss Edie is a member of the A.N.C. but not enrolled and a British-subject - very pleasant and seems efficient. Miss Horner has been in this hospital for hearly two years and seems to have done excellent work: She acts as Assistant to Miss Edie and is in charge of the Operating-room January I6 Went to A.R.C Military Hospital No. I (American Ambulance )with Miss Waters Went Miss Eakins for the first time. Was greatly surprised to find Dorothy Mann and Frances Latimer as Head Nurses, both doing excellentwork and apparently very happy Was fortunate in meeting Mrs. Munroe, while at the hospital, but cannot say that the meeting was a parti- cularly enthusiastic one on either side. After a complete tour of the hospital, which was not nearly as luxuriously furnished as I had expected and not particularly orderly, we met the nurses at tea. My impression of Miss Eakins is that she has done very good work under difficult conditions and has probably handled the situation very much better thana stranger would, unless it could have been a nurse with a good deal of force and influence. The patients seemed comfortable and happy, but the hospital as a whole impressed: as rather casual in its discipline and management. Miss Eakins had little to complain of in regard to the Nurses Aids, but felt that they would have done far better work, if entirely under the con- trol of the nurses. was greatly interested in a plan which they had worked out for the care of the patients small belongings on their admission to the hospital and the quarters for their reception A gallery was built around three sides of a large room to accomodate the patients who could walk. In another the gallery has be en arranged for three tiers of stretchers, supported by rungs made of simple pieces of tiron bent into shape, simple in construction but entirely adequate andlconvenient. In this large reception hall, the belongings were taken from the patients and sent to the central place where they were checked, very much like umbrellas at the entrance to a shop. One ticket was pinned to the bag and the other returned to the waiting room and tied around the patients s neck after his bath. The bath-room

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