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    "ocrText": "Dec. 15, 1938\nAmerican Journal of Nursing\nANNA W. KERR\nMiss Kerr enrolled in the Red Cross Nursing Service in 1911.\nShe was a graduate of Bellevue Training School for Nurses. Soon\nafter graduation she returned to Bellevue as Assistant Superintendent\nof Nurses, and later became director of nurses of the Bureau of Child\nBygiene, Department of Health, New York City.\nShe was 8 close personal friend of Miss Deleno and served as\nDirector of the Enrollment Bureau, National Headquarters, American Red\nCross, from May 1917 until August 1919. In April of 1919 she went\nabroad under the American Red Cross to visit Miss Delano during her\nlast illness. She went to the Saveney Hospital Center where she\nvisited Miss Delano, who was just coming out of the aneathetic for her\nfourth operation. She roused herself to ask Miss Kerr, \"Who is doing\nyour work in Washington while you are away?\" and again, \"But what about\nmy work? I must get back to my work.\" This conversation with Miss\nKerr were the last words that Miss Delano spoke.\nMiss Kerr inherited from Miss Delano the little house in Canton,\nPennsylvania, where the recent years she has lived."
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