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    "ocrText": "AMERICAN RED CROSS-HARVARD HOSPITAL\nHARVARD PUBLIC HEALTH UNIT\nAMERICAN RED CROSS-HARVARD FIELD HOSPITAL UNIT\nJOHN E. GORDON, M.D., DIRECTOR\nSALISBURY, ENGLAND\nBy your last letter I gather that it is not at all imp-\nossible that you may pay us a visit in the near future. We\nshall be looking forward to that and what talking we will do.\nHow I thought of you through those anxious times, how you\nwould have to talk to the nurses families, and I was so thank-\nful that it was you who would have to do it, no one could do it\nbetter. I should have been an awful coward.\nBy now you will have heard that we have a new Superinten-\ndent and it was she who helped me through those dark days. She\nlived in the next apartment to Dr. Gordon in London. Miss Phillips\nand I had met her through him. She is an American, Graduate\nNurse, has been a hospital Superintendent in America for eight\nor ten years. She is a member of the American Hospital Associa-\ntion, A.N.A. and A.R.C. I know nothing of her ability as a Sup-\nerintendent, but like her very much as a woman, and who can bet-\nter understand nurses than a trained nurse? Besides, both she\nand her husband are making a very great sacrifice. They are very\nhappily married, but they feel this is their contribution to the\nwar effort.\nMiss Phillips has been my right hand. She is so energetic,\nthere is nothing she won't undertake. She has been in bed a\nweek with a Sacro-Iliac. She hurt her back when a soldier in\nfront of her in church had a seizure of some kind and she went\nto his rescue. When I got to London I thought she looked bad-\nly and I felt she should have been in a hospital where she could\nhave had complete rest, however before I left again she was much\nbetter.\nMiss Peterson too is everything those New Englanders said\nof her. She is busy all of the time and is so well liked.\nWe have had ARP instructions. We had to put on overalls\nand stuff the legs into high rubber boots. \"My dignity went\nwith the wind\". We were made to crawl through a smoke filled\nroom and we had to keep our noses almost on the ground because\nthat was the only smoke free \"spot\". We had to remain lying\ndown and play a hose on real live fires and an actual incendiary\nbomb. Now we are taking classes to detect and cope with the\nvarious poison gases. A police sergeant gives us our lectures.\nHe is a very pleasant man and is well prepared to teach on such\na subject. We all collect in the dining room twice a week for\nsix classes. We went down to the police station for our fire\nfighting instructions."
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