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    "ocrText": "April 22,1942\nPresident, Alumae Association\nEnergency Hospital School of Nursing\nNiashington, D. C.\nDear President:\nThe Alumae Association of the Emergency Hospital School of Nursing vill,\nI think, be particularly interested in the subject of this letter. As\nof course you all know, Ruth M. Hartin, from your School, volunteered\nto serve with the American Red Cross-Harvard Pield Hospital, for communi-\ncable diseases in England. You have probably followed the interesting\nexperiences the nurses in that group are having in Salisbury now. Per-\nhaps you do not know how valuable their work is. The British Ministry\nof Health has been most complimentary in regurd to it. As an example of\nits value, if a single case of typhus fever should appear in England, it\nis this Unit which would be sent by the Ministry of Health to take measures\nwhich there iè every reason to believe would control the terrible menace\nto the people of Englande\nlie are all very proud of the work of this group of Red Croos nurses. We\nhear of it from many different groups of people and always with great\nrespect and admiration for the nurses. It has been decided both by\nHarvard University and by the Red Crosa that the work of the Unit should\ncontinue and it is hoped meny of the present group will decide to remain\nwith it. There could be no more important wor work anywhere than this.\nYou will remember the tragedy of the torpedoing and shipureck of the\nS.S. Maasden and S.S. Vigrid last June, and you will remember too, I\nthink, that five of these nurses and their housemother, Mrs. Ruth Breckin-\nridge, lost their lives then, thoir lifobat wont to picees eiter the\nterpoross\nFriends of Urs. Breckinridge have canted to give a nemoria. to her and\nhave felt that the kind or menorial ahe vould have liked best would be\na sum of money to be placed with the American Red Cross which would con-\nstitute a loan fund for the returned nurses of the Red. Cross-Harvard Unit.\nNo one is being asked to give any money to this memorial, but frienda of\nthe Unit are being told about it so that 11 they wish to have a part in\nbuilding up this fund, the opportunity will be given to then to cio SO.\n9\nJ"
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