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    "ocrText": "Sta:\nS\nAla\n29467\nNov. 29, 1918.\nMiss /da Holden Stafford\n87 Larch Street,\nProvidence, R. I.\nMy dear Miss Stafford:\nYour letter to Miss Sherman has been referred to us\nbecause you have asked for public health work. In this connection allow us\nto say that the need for public health nurses to do construction work\nabroad is very indefinite. All the present personnel for foreign servico\nhas been canceled and there has been no indication from the foreign countries\nthat we shall be asked in the future to send more nurses to do public health\nwork. Howover as you probably know there are many opportunities for such\nservice in this count ry and we should be glad to interest you in the Town\nand Country Nursing Service which is the permanent work of this Bureau.\nThis Service consists in the placing of woll qualified\npublic health nurses in small communities, townships and counties, in\norganizations controlled by private philanthropy, Red Cross Chapters,\nindustrial concerns, Boards of Health, Boards of Education and County\nSupervisors or other public officials. Such organizations affiliate\nwith\nthe Towm and Country Nursing Service by agreeing to certain required standards.\nThe nurse's work is under the direction of the local organization. The\nTowm and Country Nursing Service simply maintains an advisory relation\nwith the nurse and her Board through correspondence, reports, and super-\nvisory visits. 111 kinds of public health nursing are carried on by these\norgenizations, some doing bedside nursing, others specializing in infant\nwelfare or tuberculosis work and others in industrial welfare work or school\ninspection, each following its own greatest need and inclination.\nYour application papers do not give the names and\naddresses of those who employed you while doing public health work. We\nshould wish to write to them for credentials in the event that you favor-\nably consider an appointment under our Bureau. Anticipating an early reply\nand thanking you for your interest in the Red Cross, I am\nYours sincerely,\nAssistant to the Director,\nCVD/MM\nRed Cross Bureau of Public Health Nursing."
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