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    "ocrText": "Colorado Springs, Colorado,\nOctober 28,1918.\nTo the Executive Committee of\nThe Pikes Peak Chapter of the American Red Cross:\nI am addressing to you the following to as-\nsist in presentation of the case with Miss Lewis and the soldiers\nat Colorado College. As you know I was a sort of superintendent\nof the hospital in virtue of being on the ground. On Friday,\nOctober 4th, the improvised hospital had been going a week. It\nwas over-crowded with soldiers sick with influenza, and with far\ntoo nurses.\nfew 1) On Friday the sickness was at its height, be\ntween seventy and eighty boys were down and many very seriously\nill. About six o'clock the head nurse told me that beside the\nregular nurses it was imperative to have four special nurses\nfor four boys if their lives were to be saved. I spent an hour\ntelephoning in every direction without success. At last Miss\nLewis' name was given me. I got her on the telephone and asked\nif she was busy, She said no. I told her of our plight and\nasked if she would come. She asked if a Mr. Hartag was in\ncharge at the hospital and I said that a graduate nurse, Mrs.\nWeinhausen was in charge of the nurses, She said she could\nnot come because she was under orders to go over-seas. 1. I told\nher how desperate was our need and asked if some one could not\nrelease her. She said no one could but Miss Welch of Denver.\nI asked if she would not telephone her. She said it would do\nno good because even if she were released she had promised to\ntake a case for Dr. Moore.\nI asked if his case was desperate,\nand she said she did not know. Since then I have been told\nthat Dr. Moore had already released her before this conversation\nhad taken place. I again urged her to telephone Miss Welch,"
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