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    "ocrText": "September 7, 1922.\nFORED SEP\nMiss Lillian Thite,\nand to\nDirector, Nursing Service,\nPacific Division, A.R.C.,\nCivic Auditorium,\nLarkin & Grove Sts.,\nSan Francisco, Calif.\nPERSONAL\nMy dear Miss White:\nWe are distressed to hear of your decision to\nresign from Red Cross work, but I have been fearing this ever\nsince my visit to San Francisco.\nI presume that Miss Cole is the logical person\nto succeed you. I have great respect for her as a public health\nnurse, and I believe that she is interested in the whole question\nof nursing. I am wondering, however, how much time she will be\nable to give to the general program, such as the organization of\ncommittees, the enrolment of nurses, contacts with schools of nurs-\ning, requests for nurses for disaster relief, advice on Home Hygiene\n& Care of the Sick, and assistance with disabled nurses, not to\nmention the help we expect from a Division Director when nurses are\nneeded for various governmental services. For example - we must now\nturn our attention to helping the Veterans Bureau secure two hundred\nnurses, a notice of this will reach you later. If Miss Cole succeeds\nyou then it would seem necessary for her to have an assistant to look\nafter the public health nursing.\nWill you not talk this whole question over with\nMr. Brannion and let me know how he feels about it all? I shall be\nquite willing to see Miss Cole appointed, but I do not want the\nservice which is fundamental to the development of any specialized\nform of nursing suffer. I of course sympathize with you and appreciate\nyour situation,\nI trust that you will let mehear from you from\ntime to time, even though you may not be in the office, and I shall\nlock forward to having you return to us at some other time. I am\nhoping to get away for a couple of weeks vacation tonight so that I am\nsending you a rather hurried letter.\nSincerely yours,\nDirector - Nursing Service.\nN-k\n6914"
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