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    "ocrText": "M\nar\n+:\ns\nAMERICAN RED CROSS--HARVARD FIELD HOSPITAL UNIT\nR\nSalisbury, England\nbeen through, and they are more than ever determined. Then too one\nfinds them carrying on as usual in the shops and everywhere even though\nit is often under trying circunstances.\nAfter London we were sent to various English hospitals to work,\nthat is the country branch of London hospitals. Our own is not yet\nM\ncomplete so we are being farmed out until such time as there will be\nwork to do here. I went to Guys Hospital and was there working for\nan\ntwo weeks. It was a very interesting experience. If find the English\nhospitals quite different than our own, their methods etc., however\none soon gets on to their way and I am happy to say I learned many\nthings during my stay. I also had an opportunity to visit St.\nBartholomew's, St. Thomas', and Middlesex hospitals in London.\nS\nAfter two weeks at Guys our resident physician here at Salisbury\ndecided that I should have a rest before we get started here. I had\nlost considerable weight during our ordeal and had not had any time\nto rest and regain it so he sent me on here to take things easy for\nawhile. I have been here a little over two weeks and have gained six\npounds in that time and really feel a lot better. Dr. Beeson is very\npleased with me and now I am working once again, helping to make up a\ncard index for our store room supplies and also do a little typing for\nMiss Madley, our chief nurse. There are several other nurses here who\nare more or less recuperating too. Most of us suffered a reaction in\none way or the other, so it is perhaps well that we are not opened yet.\nIn that way we don't feel too much of a liability.\nOur hospital will be very nice when it is finished. There are twenty\ntwoshitts in all, nine hospital, six personnel, diet kitchen and dining\nroom combined, administration, laboratory, laundry, store room, admittance\nbuilding, and recreation hut. They are all connected by a covered walk.\nDo you know Salisbury? It is a town of about 50,000 people at present,\nlocated about 70 miles southwest of London, about 10 miles from South-\nhampton, in Wilthsire. It is a lovely little town and has a very old\nand historical Cathedral and many unusual shops and streets. I am\nperfectly fascinated seeing sheep and cows being driven through the\nstreets by farmers.\nOur transportation is mostly by bycycle and I have just purchased\none as has everyone else here at the hospital. At present there are\nonly a small group of nurses here and the others are office people and\nlab. technicians, dietitian, x-ray technician, Pathologist, resident\nphysician and chef. There are altogether about 200 workmen so every-\nthing is coming right along. We hope to be ready for patients about\nthe end of Sept.\nUntil yesterday we went to bed by candlelight as we had no electricity,\nbut nowowe are modernized and have our lights. We have central heat which\namazes the English. You no doubit know how poorly heated their houses and\nestablishments are. Ours is very good, in fact we are using it now.\na"
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