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    "ocrText": "(Reid Jau13)\nAMERICAN REDCROSS-HARVARD HOSPITAL\nHARVARD PUBLIC HEALTH UNIT\nAND\nAMERICAN RED CROSS-HARVARD FIELD HOSPITAL UNIT Miss\nBeard\n\" Junbar\nJOHN E. GORDON, M.D., DIRECTOR\nENGLAND\nto\ngatleese\n(nursing)\n29th\nDecember,\n1941\ndietigaod\nMiss Dunbar\nAssistant Director of Nursing Service\nNational Headquarters\nVIOVOI\nbad\nDear Miss Dunbar:\nOur\nMrs.\nBroughton\narrived\nat\nSalisbury\nat\n4.42\nP.M.,\nDecember\n27th,1941.\nI\nmet her at the station and we drove to the Recreation Room where tea was awaiting\nus.\nI am sure we are going to like her very much. She soresembles Mrs. Brecken-\nridge. Mr. & Mrs. Elcock had a dinner party for twelve on December 27th. The\ngroup consisted of Mr.&.Mrs. Elcock, Mrs.Broughton, Misses Phillips, Peterson,\nWesterman, Smock, Sundby, Somerville, Jurewitz, F.Madley and G.Madley. It was\na nice party. Today Miss Peterson took Mrs. Broughton to the Cathedral. Tonight\nwe are going to have mince pies and coffee in the Recreation Room with Community\nsinging. That will be a splendid opportunity for an introduction of the House\nMother to the group.\nI will list the parts of uniform that we need.\nalready sent\n17 Capes for nurses who were torpedoed.\n51 Caps\nmadley\n46 Sleeve emblems. American Red Cross Harvard Unit for nurses\nmin in letter Dee. 31/41\nwho were torpedoed as well as nine Public Health Nurses,\nMiss Raymond, and Mrs. Elcock who had second suits made here\n78 Sleeve emblems American Red Cross Nurse for last uniforms\nsent over for thirteen nurses.\n50 A.R.C. pins for the uniforms made over here with additional\nones for replacement.\nSome cut out Red Cross pins came with Frances Madley's uniform but\nmost of them are those on a white background. Is it alright to use these?\nThere was much discussion about that when I was at Washington but I do not know\nthe\nresult\nof\nthe\ndiscussion.\nIf we can use these we will have plenty, but\nif\nnot then we shall need more.\nFrances Madley's uniform arrived December 5th, 1941.\nI would like to recommend at this time that Miss Westerman be given the\nraise of salary we had agreed upon when electing Head Nurses. The suggestion\nat that time, if you remember, was to be a raise of ten dollars monthly. Was my\nrecommendation\nfor\nMiss\nPeterson\napproved\nof?\n(we\nreceived\nlast\nweek\na\ncable\nsuggesting an additional lining for our top coats. Mrs. Elcock and I had visited\nthe uniform tailor here at Salisbury before Dr. Gordon left, and we had found this\nto be impractical. Our top coats are definitely inadequate, they are heavy but\nnot warm. If new ones are approved of we shall need buttons and sleeve emblems\nfor them. There are 73 of us\nMiss Phillips has lost one of her white uniforms which should be"
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