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    "ocrText": "As I am no good, physically, in a very hot climate, and\nhad signed up for Public Health, not Hospital, and also\nwas some ten years over the age-limit which they had\nstated would not be waived for tropical service, I\nwrote back that I could not apply. There has been\nno further indication that I might fit in Somewhere\nin this country, where I'm sure nurses are needed for\nnewly crowded areas. Now I've passed my forty-fifth\nbirthday in August, so suppose that is another mark\nagainst me.\nMy application blanks for the Red Cross position\nare probably on file with you, and would give you a\nbetter idea of my professional and educational work,\nthan to list it here. Will just say that since gradu\nation from the Rhode Island Hospital Training School\nin 1923,I ve had\n4 years \"ith the Smithfield Public Health League--\nas staff-nurse--combining - rural district,\nschool, and industrial nursing (first-aid &\nnursing service to five mills daily)\n2 years- Private duty, mostly for pediatricians.\n2 years- \"ith, Burrillville District Nursing Ass' n, as\nhead-nurse. Rural district with large Matern\nity Pervice.\n6 months- Brown University Infirmary, as assistant\nnurse. Institutional.\n4\nnths--Private duty Pediatrics & general.\n2\nmonths--Camp Nurse- - R. I. Girl-Scout Camp.\n11 yrs Barrington District Nursing Asson- taff-\nnurse--suburban district nursing, 24 hr.ser-\nvice,living at Centre. Do all bedside nursir\nand assist with school-nursing program as\nneeded by my head-nurse.\nThe only Hospital nursing I've done since graduation\nhas been during intervals of private-duty nursing, and\non alternate Sundays in the past three months, when I\nvolunteered 8 hours floor-duty at the \".I. Hospital to\nhelp out.\nIn nineteen years of active nursing,I have lost\nvery little time for illness. My health is good, and\naltho I've enjoyed my bedside nursing to the exclusion\nof learning special techniques, I've studied faithfully\nand as fast as I was financially able, to better my\neducational standards. It is most discouraging to\nfind oneself too young for one war, and too old for the\nnext, and yet feel capable of serving as long and as\nwell as a younger persone So,Miss Dunbar, if you\ncould find a place for me in your plan, and let me giv\nmy share of work, I would be very happy.\nThanking you for your attention in this matter,\nand trusting you will call me soon, I am\nRespectfully yours,"
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