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school connected with the Alexander Hospital in Sofia, with eight care-
S
fully chosen students, was opened. Bulgaria having thrown in her fortunes
with Germany and Austria, plans were changed and after a few months of
C.
visiting nursing in the ancient city of Philipopolos, Mims Hay and her
C
faithful assistant, Rachel Torrance, were withdrawn by the American Red
+
Cross. While the plans for Bulgaria did not at that time develop as
expected, the demonstrations in the nurse educational and public health
+
nursing field created a desire on the part of the people for American
methods, which were later fulfilled. Said good Queen Eleanora in writing
to Miss Hay - "God grant that the work established by you may grow and
remain in good form 'til in better times helpful American hands may work
at it again". This was finally concummated, although Queen Eleanora did
not live to see the fulfillment of her dream.
In July 1917, we find Miss Hay at American Red Cross Headquarters
in Washington, attached to the Nursing Service, directing the Bureau of
Instruction with classes in Home Hygiene and Care of the Bick as the main
project. Here she worked until January 1918 when she was released to the
Surgeon General's Office to assist with the organization of the Army Schools
of Nursing. It was not long, however, before a Chief Nurse for the Commission
to the Balkane was needed. Miss Hay seemed the logical person to serve as
Director. Securing her release from the War Department she sailed for Paris
in December 1918 where she selected from the American Red Cross nurses in
Europe a unit of fifty-three and with them prodeeded to the Balkans.
The reports from then until she became Chief Nurse of the Commission
to Europe early in 1920 were replete with stories of her activities in the
interest of the welfare of the people of the Balkans. Traveling in all
manner of conveyance, from oxcarts to luxurious automobiles or tossing
about on the Adriatic strappe on the deck of an Italian destroyer,
stopping at Hotels where they existed or forlorn wayeide native irns when
noother quarters were to be found, she made her way from one country to
another, visiting the nurses who had been placed at strategic points through
the Peninsula. At this time the Red Cross had two mein projects for Europe -
schools of nursing in those countries hitherto without qualified nursing
personnel and child welfare units. To this superior office, because of
her experience in the Balkans, she was able to render service of broad
and high order.
Miss Delano's tragic death at Savenay, France, in April 1919
interrupted the first supervisory visit from en official of the National
Red Cross Nursing Service to its nursing activities of Europe. Because
of the exigencies of the office, it was, therefore, not until early autumn
of 1920 that it was found possible to carry out this plan when the present
National Director set forth upon a pilgrimage of inspection. To attempt
& detailed description of this would form a story in itself.
Europe sapped by the World War of its vitality and resources
lay prostrate. Traveling usually in unheated treins, sometimes unlighted,
rarely warm, sometimes by Red Croas cars, oecasionally by boat, stopping
mainly in comfortable Red Cross Personnel Houses but occasionally in Hotels
which were always cold and cheerless, usually with ragged bedlinen and
a
menu of black bread, cabbage and fish, we made our way through Poland,
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