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    "ocrText": "November 3, 1927.\nMise Alice Fitzgerald,\nSiriraj Hospital,\nBangkok, Siam.\nMy dear Miss Fitzgerald:\nYour two letters, one of August 21st\nand the other of September 24th, have reached me quite safely.\nI h ve heard indirectly, however, that you had been ill ith\nDengue fever and had lost thirty pounds. I am, indeed, sorry\nthat you have been ill, but would hesi tate to express any\nsympathy for your loss of weight, providing you were interest-\ned in reducing. There is one thing in losing weight intention-\nally or losing it because one is ill, and I hope that the lose\nof thirty pounde does not mean that you re not making a good\nrecovery.\nI hope the Nightingale Medal will\nreach you safely. 1 have begun to feel, however, that it is\nan \"empty honor\" to receive it. Perhape I told you that I\nattended a dinner at Mon. Ador's in Geneva, and that some\nfour or five ladies around the table were wearing Nightingale\nMedals (it never occurred to me to wear mine) and out of this\ngroup I do not think that any of them were graduate nurses,\nwith the exception of Mlle. Parmentier from Belgium. Even\nMinel. Hussein Bey, from Constantinople, who has never studied\nnursing, but who perhapa did something during the war for\nthe Turkish soldiers, but is now connected with\nthe Red Crescent had one, When I think of the purpose\nfor which the money WAS given, and that it was to be restricted\nto graduate, trained nurses, I muet say that I cannot help\nfeeling a bit disturbed by the turn that the bestowal of these\nMedele has taken.\nThe check for your membership\ndues has been received and duly recorded.\nYou will, I am sure, be interested\nin hearing that the old Advisory Committee on Nursing of the\nL.O.R.C.S. Hse been abolished, at least I have been so informed\nby Miss Reimann, and that she 88 Secretary of the I.C.N. has\nbeen asked to serve on a new committee. Who the other members\nmay be I have no idea. Miss Fox is away, 80 I have not had\nchence to ask her whether she has been informed of the reorganiza-"
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