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    "ocrText": "carded\nno recent\nMay 7, 1935\nut\nMiss Ruth Laxton\nCounty Health Nurse\nDresden, Tennesee\nMy dear liss Laxton:\nWe have had some communication with our Public\nHealth Bursing and Home Hygiene Service relative to your en-\nrollment in the Red Cross Nursing Service, and we have read\nyour letter to Miss Bevey together with her reply to you.\nTe find a notation in our rejected file thit we\nhad once before. considered you for/enrollment and found thit\nyou were not eligible, for the tio schools in which you com-\npleted your nursing education did not neet Red Cross require-\nments; one caring for a wininum forty daily average number of\npatients, the other a minimum thirty-eight. Since graduation\nyou have had no course in nursing to include the basic nursing\nsubjects, pediatrics, obstetrics and medical nursing. While\nyou have continued to educate yourself in Public Bealth Nursing,\nthis has never been considered as satisfactorily supplementing\na small school where it is not possible for a nurse to receive\nfull rounded courses in the subjects mentioned in this letter.\nTherefore, considering your situation it seems only\nfair to advise you thit in order to meet Red Cross requirements\nyou should plan to have a course of at least six months, the\ncourse to include, if possible, pediatrics, obstetrics and that\nbranch of medical nursing which seeus most necessary to round\nout your medical experience. These courses may bè taken in a\nhospital or hospitals which neet Red Cross requirements.\nTe are sending a copy of this letter to Miss Helen\nF. Dunn, Assistant to the Director, Public Health Nursing and\nHome Hygiene Service. We sincerely hope that you will find it\npossible to take the necessary course to make you eligible for\nI\nenrollment.\nVery sincerely yours\nhas o\nD.\nIda F. Butler\nAssistant to the Director\nRed Cross Nursing Service\nIFB/ing"
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