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    "title": "Letter from William Loeb, Jr. to E. A. Hitchcock",
    "description": "This letter includes a memorandum about the removal of Dr. John C. Simpson, Second Assistant Physician at St. Elizabeth's.  Also included is a note from President Theodore Roosevelt.",
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    "ocrText": "M.R.B.\nAction of the Board of Visitors in the matter of the investiga-\ntion of the charge of insubordination preferred against Dr. John C.\nSimpson by the Superintendent, Dr. White. Copied from the Minutes.\nXXXXX\nThe Board have reached the conclusion, after a full considera-\ntion of all the facts, that while the conduct of Dr. J. C. Simpson\nwith reference to the sending home of the patient Marquis was a se-\nrious breach of discipline, the Board does not deem it a sufficient\ncause for the removal from office of a physician who has been for\nover twenty years a member of the medical staff of the Hospital, who\nhas rendered therein able and efficient service, during which noth-\ning has come to the knowledge of the Board reflecting on him in any\nway until the charge of insubordination now before us was preferred.\nIt is manifest from the statements of the Superintendent and\nDr. Simpson that a state of feeling has for some time existed between\nthem which is detrimental to the interests of the Hospital, and pre-\nsents a situation which should not be allowed to continue.\nThe Board have, therefore, come to the conclusion that, in view\nof his long and meritorious service, Dr. John C. Simpson, Second As-\nsistant Physician, be permitted to resign, his resignation to take\neffect on the\nday of\n, 1904, until which day he shall be\ngranted leave of absence with pay, and he shall without delay give\nup his residence at the Hospit al.\nFrom the Minutes\nof March 28, 1904."
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