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    "ocrText": "I\nay,\nI\nPrepared for Biographical File,\n1-21-31\nAmerican Journal of Nursing.\ntelen\nwith\nMISS HELEN SCOTT HAY\nMy acquaintance with Miss day began with the World War. Her work for\nC.\nC\nthe American Red Cross was characterized by a type of loyalty and devotion that\n+\nwould be difficult to describe.\nWhen in Bulgaria,at Philopopolis, engaged in public health nursing\nin the year 1915, living under conditions of the most primitive nature, working\nin the heat which is unparalleled during the summer, with little or no equip-\nment with which to work, her courage and patience though taxed to the utmost\nnever flagged. She created a local committee of interested citizens, a rather\nconstructive step considering the time and place, which has always been inter-\nested in the work and which I believe exists to the present time, carrying on\nas best they can.\nPuring the World War, whether in Washington at National Headquarters,\nin the Balkans in charge of our work, or later as Pirector of Nursing of the\nAmerican Red Cross Commission to Purope, she was indefatigable. No task was\ntoo haxey, no journey too difficult for her to undertake.\nIn the autumn and winter of 1920 we made a tour of Red Cross acti-\nvities through Csechoslovakia and Poland, back through Austria, Serbia, Greece,\nAlbania, Montenegro, the Dalmation Coast and Itely, back to Paris. She set a\npace not only for endurance, for the conditions under which we travelled were\nfrequently most primitive in character, but for enthusiasm and interest, that\nit was difficult for me to maintain. She never malked, she always ran. I\ncannot help but feel that her present ill hoalth is in a large measure due to\nthe hard work and hardships which ahe encountered while working with our Com-\nmission. Perhaps the hardest task for her has boen to accept her present poor\nhealth and inability to engage in any type of active work. Even now at times\nshe has been able to help with our Aoll Calls and in various ways assist the"
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