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    "ocrText": "EN nv.\nfluin\npalest\nSeptember 20,1916.\nMiss Mary K. Nelson,\nHospital Auxiliaire, No. 43 Bis.,\nSt. Valery, En-Caux, France.\nMy dear Miss Nelson:\nMiss Emma J. Jones of Rochester, New York is planning to go to\nSt Valery soon, and I am taking this opportunity to send you a letter so that I may\nbe sure of its safe delivery.\nI was indeed glad to received your last letter and to know that\nyou are again busy, and only wish it were possible for the Red Cross to send additional\nnurse to help out during the winter.\nI am very glad of your opionion in regard to the working staff of\nthe hospital, and am interested in your suggestion that over 40 is more desirable than\nbelow 25.\nYou will be interested to know that we have sent one hundred and\ntwenty-four nurses for service on the Border to supplement the Army Nurses already on\nduty in the Military Hospital there. We have not sent any volunteer workers with\nthe groups but are adding them to our Base Hospital Units, and we are all naturally\nmuch interested to see how it will work out in case our units are actually called\ninto service. The nurses seem much interested in the work on the Border, and I feel\nsure that the experience will be valuable to them should a great need ever come to us.\nYou have doubtless heard of our development of Base Hospital Units in connection with\nmany of the large hospitals in the Country, and in most instances the Superintendent of\nthe Training School is acting as chief nurse and is selecting, for the executive posi-\ntions of the units, from among the members of her own staff. This will give us a unit\nof fifty nurses, and 25 nurses aids who have had at least our course of instruction in\nElementary Hygione and Home Care of the Sick, who will serve without pay. The unit\nwill also carry a reserve of 15 nurses and 25 volunteer nurses aids. We shall\nsoon\nhave about thirty of these base hospital units available which will give us, as you\nwill see, a large Nursing Personnel ready for service. In addition to this\nwe\nare\nalso developing Emergency Detachments of Nurses and have called upon them for service\non the Border. They go out without a Medical Personnel and are assigned to the\nMilitary Hospitals. We shall soon begin the organization of detachments of nurses\nfor service with the Navy which will be larger units but also go out without a Medical\nPersonnel. It is all very interesting bu has meant a tremendous amount of work\nduring the past year.\nYou will be interested to know that Miss Clara D. Noyes, for\nseveral years Superintendent of Training Schools at Bellevue Hospital, is coming to\nme this month as Director of the Bureau of Nursing Service and will take charge of\nthe administrative details of the office, leaving me for work as\nChairman Of the National Committee. I have been overwhelmed with work for the past\ntwo years and have found it absolutely isne sible to continued w; out"
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