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    "ocrText": "Original letter in Miss MacLachlan's folder\nEXTRACT FROM LETTER TO MISS BEARD FROM MISS MARGERY MacLACHLAN, MARCH 6, 1943:\n\"Miss Harvard has been in charge of the Medical Supply Depot\nand has done a very fine piece of work but is very unhappy working with\nDr. Wallis and is asking for a transfer. She has asked to go to Hawaii\nand will be transferred there. She is being replaced by a local married\nnurse.'\nWAIMEA:\n\"Miss Specht as head nurse and three others are in full charge\nof the hospital and expanded emergency facilities. This is a plantation\nhospital at which the physician in charge was decidedly prejudiced against\ngraduate nurses in the hospital. Miss Specht and her nurses have sold\nthemselves completely, the physician told me that for the first time since\ngoing there he was able to practice medicine as he should because he had\nadequate (in quality) nursing assistance. He is asking to be allowed to\nadd to Miss Specht's salary as Superintendent of Nurses of the Hospital.\nThese girls are very happy and Miss Specht thinks she would like to remain\nin this position when the war is over.\"\nWILCOX MEMORIAL HOSPITAL:\n\"This is a very unhappy situation. Nine O.C.D.\nnurses were loaned to the hospital. They were having a daily average of\nthirty patients and five nurses on the staff. Although the nurses much\nprefer being busy, they were unhappy because of conditions within the\nhospital. The director of the Nursing Service, is given responsibility,\nbut not authority and the nurses know it. The discipline and morale are\nbad. Miss Wilde has been in a very difficult position. I talked very\nfrankly with Miss Wilcox and if we can get Dr. Wallis to send patients to\nHuleia our nurses will go back and Wilcox can get itself straightened out\nand its staff built up. I am going back before very long a time and I\nexpect to find a change.\"\n\"Miss Catlett was transferred from Sacred Hearts to replace\nMrs. O'Connor and put at Wilcox at her request. Miss Elizabeth Wright\ninjured her coccyx while performing the jiujitsu at a party on January 31st.\nShe has been hospitalized at Wilmox Memorial Hospital, as the doctors felt\nthat her injury was too severe to warrant her traveling to Honolulu.\nAlthough she was hurt off duty it is quite possible that we may have to\nbear the expenses of her medical care and hospitalization. She has been\nquite a problem, she came for a good time.\"\nKILAUEA:\nThe O.C.D. expansion has been built, a nurses' cottage has in\nalso\nbeen built which is adequate for six nurses. The Medical Supply Depot\nwas bringing in furnishing and supplies while I was there. No nurses\nhas been assigned there yet. There were seven patients the day of my\nvisit. The physician there is another who prefers Oriental aides and\norderlies to nurses. I tried to explain to him that the reason he had\nnot had satisfaction from his nurses was that he never provided a nurse\nsupervisor, he couldn't see why his own supervision was not adequate.\nMrs. Joyce has been very anxious to go up with nurses and see if she\ncouldn't accomplish there what Miss Specht has accomplished at Waimea,\nbut Miss Wilde has rightfully not allowed her to do so. However,\nI\nhave advised that when the equipment and supplies have been brought\nin, that she send Mrs. Joyce and two nurses to work only in setting up the\nsupply depot and the expanded O.C.D. Unit. The two nurses will come from Wilcox\nMemorial Hospital. Mr. Fern is arranging with the owner of the plantation regarding"
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