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    "ocrText": "Statemant filed by mis Slack.\n3\nOn arriving in Belgrade the Commanding Officer sent me to\nrelive Miss McGowan for sick Leave (Miss Mapes the Chief Nurse was ayay\non her vacation.) I found the clinic in poor condition, which may have\nbeen due to Miss McGowan's three days' absence. I, naturally, cleaned\nKing\nik\nJ\nand arranged the things to the best of my ability.\nAs I spoke and understood French the interpreter had a great\ndeal of leisure time which he used in sending telegrams to Miss McGowan,\nreporting in detail everything I did from day to day. He became worse\neach day, and one day left the Clinic and went to the Nurses Home and\nopened Red Cross supplies, although I had told him to wait until I could\ncheck the items. In checking them later, among other items missing were\nspools of cotton and George Washington Coffee. The Interpreter said they\nhad not come. When Miss McGowan returned the cotton and coffee was\nproduced, Miss McGowan stating that she had told the interpreter to hide\nthem, as the nurses used the cotton, and she wanted the coffee ( 12 cans)\nI drank the Serbian coffee while she was away, not knowing any better I\nnaturally took what I could get.\nMiss McGowan also presented me with seven or eight telegrams\nwhich the Interpreter had sent, so she was well informed of my work in the\nClinic. On many occasions the Interpreter actually forbade me doing certain\nthings which he said Miss McGowan had not done, but I treated him as a joke.\nHe was very young and ignorant of what a nurse should and could do as\noccasions arose.\nMiss McGowan questioned me, criticized, accused me of all kinds\nof errors, finally she demanded that I make an inventory of the supplies in\nClinic. I underxtook this work although it seemed a little imposing. While\nin the midst of counting pelts, etc., she started in with her nagging again.\nI had determined not to say anything more, until the Inventory was finished,\nbut this did not seem to be the correct method. Finally Miss McGowan said -\n\"If you do not answer me I shall come over there and slap your face.' -\nAt this I lost complete control and retorted in a very undignified way, for\nwhich I was very sorry.\nA few days after this Miss Mapes came to the Centre. T his\nwas\nthe first time I had met Miss Mapes. She was very nice to me. I did not\nknow that Miss McGowan had been reporting me on the strength of the Inter-\npreters telegrams, inasmuch as Miss McGowan and I were friendly. Her atti-\ntude on her return was very antagonistic, and I could not understand until\nI saw the telegrams, even then I could not understand her encouraging the\nInterpreter in such action against a nurse who was relieving her.\nIn leaving the Centre, Miss Mapes gave me a letter which com-\nmanded me to return to Belgrade on a certain date. I did not think anything\nwrong about this letter as I knew I was only relieving at Kosench and at\nrish\nthe time of receiving letter, and there were four nurses at the Centre.\nThe doctor, however, enlightened me later that I was to be discharged.\nMiss Mapes told me in the Belgrade office that I had been\ncritical and disloyal and she thought it was better to send me back to\nParis. I asked if I may tell my $tory and she said \"no\", so I left\nBelgrade that night, much to everybody's surprise."
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