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    "ocrText": "April 22, 1942\nPresident, Alumna Association\nLenox Hill Hospital School of Nursing\nNew York, New York\nDear President:\nThe Alumnae Association of the Lenox Hill Hospital School of Nursing\nwill, I think, be particularly interested in the subject of this letter.\nAs of course you all know, Catherine L. Whyte, from your School, volun-\nteered to serve with the American Red Cross-Harvárd Field Hospital for com-\nmunicable diseases in England. You have probably followed the interesting\nexperiences the nurses in that group are having in Salisbury now. Perhaps\nyou do not know how valuable their work is. The British Ministry of Health\nhas been most complimentary in regard to it. As an example of its value,\nif a single case of typhus fever should appear in England, it is this Unit\nahich would be sent by the Ministry of Health to take measures which there\nis every reason to believe would control the terrible menace to the people\nof England.\nWe are all very proud of the work of this group of Red Cross nurses.\nWe hear of it from many different groups of people and always with great\nrespect and admiration for the nurses. It has been decided both by\nHarvard University and by the Red Cross that the work of the Unit should\ncontinue and it is hoped many of the present group will decide to remain\nwith it. There could be no more important war work anywhere than this.\nYou will remember the tragedy or the torpedoing and shipwreck of the\nS. 3, Maasden and S. S. Vigrid last June, and you will remember too, I\nthink, that five of these nurses and their housemother Mrs. Ruth\nBreckinridge, lost their lives then their lifeboat went to pieces after\nthe wes torpedoed\nFriends of Mrs. Breckinridge have wented to give a memorial to her\nand have felt that the kind of memorial she would have liked best would be\na sum of nonoy to be placed with the American Red Cross which vould con-\nstitute a loan fund for the returned nurses of the Red Cross-Harvard Unit."
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