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    "ocrText": "Miss Delano\nPage 2.\nI have never for one moment felt that the marses had not\ndone a perfectly splendid piece of work in that country. While it\nwould be impossible to have so large a number of nurses in France\nwithout finding among them some weak sisters, I feel that these are\nthe exception rather than the rule. After all is said and done, we\nhear always the one statement made that the Nursing Service has\nmeasured up to all that was expected of it and that the nurses col-\nlectively and individually have more than fulfilled their part of\nthe contract.\nYou will be surprised that a cable has just reached us\nasking for more Red Cross workers for canteen, searchers, steno-\ngraphers, et cetera. This seems rather extraordinary to me when\nso many are apparently in Paris and returning to this country.\nYgu will be interested to know that we have just gotten\noff a Unit of fifty seven marses for Armonia and are preparing an-\nother group of thirty or forty for Siberia which is also to include\na fow Czech-Slovak nurses' aids.\nMiss Deans is still out and the last communication was re-\nceived from Denver. I believe she goes next to Seattle.\nI am sending you a brief summary of a most unfortunate\nepisode that has occurred in connection with a group of murses who\nwere returning from England. As this is self-explanatory, I will\nnot dwell upon it but I do feel that Mrs. Metcalf should be made\nto understand that she was very negligent in not looking after the\nmurses of this group and also that Miss Brown has placed these\nnurses in an exceedingly unfortunate position through her reports.\nThe complaints against the London office - especially Lieutenant\nMountford, seemed to be sustained. Even if the nurses had been\nindiscreet on the steamer, which does not appear to have been the\ncase from their reports, there was absolutely no reason why they\nshould have been treated discourteously and inadequately provided\nfor. I am sorry to burden you with these matters but feel sure\nthat you will be interested and do all you ean to prevent repetition.\nI am sending you a copy of a letter that came from Mr.\nEndicott, also a copy of a letter from Miss Hall to Lieutenant\nMountford which does not seem to contain the message that the nurses\nwere being returned as a disciplinary measure, and one from Mrs.\nDraper. I have just seen that letters this morning but may I state\nthat Mrs. Draper is wrong in stating that \"The record, however, of\nthier conduct had already reached the Nursing Bureau and their dis-\ncharge did not carry the usual commendation of service\". This is\nincorrect as we have had no report from Mrs. Metcalf, Miss Brown or\nMiss Hall.\nI have letters from all of the nurses to whom I wrote ask-\ning them to give us a statement of what really happened and, as"
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