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    "ocrText": "4.\nthe Army , each nurse being given a separate cubicle\nwith convenient shelves ,good beds and comfortably\nheated by a large stove at eachend with space for\nsitting room around each stove. Seats were built in\nand comfortably cushioned. This has been one of the\nmost active hospital in Brest and preparation has\nbeen made for several thousand as all of the con-\ntagious cases from the camp are admitted to this\nhospital. As many as eighty thousand troops have\nbeen in camp at one time witha water supply for only\ntwenty thousand. To meet this emergency, large\nquantities of wine casks were purchased and water\nwas hauled to the camp. Inadequate preparation seems\nto have ben made for the care of the troops: at Brest\nbut in spite of the difficulties, about a million\nmen have come into Franc through the port of Brest\nand probably a large proportion of the Army willbe\nre-embarked from this port) For this reason Col.\nEdie is greatly increasing the hospital accomodation.\nAt the time of my visit there were only eight hundred\npatients and quite a number of the nurses had been\nsent away on their leave of absence. Col. Edie was\nmost enthusiastic over the work of the nurses and said\nMiss Jones had been a most invaluable Chief Nurse\nand that the spirit of the nurses was beyond praise.\nThe nurses mess was also conducted from the Commis-\nsary department. Miss Helm and Miss McCune, the\nsecand assistant, assured me that the food was ade-\nquate and wholesome. The Red Cross is building two\nrecreation huts one for the inside and one for the\noutsidequarters Here too they were building\nbrick fire-places and the buildings were alr eady in\nuse. The Army has just erected a new mess-hut ad-\njoining the outside recreation hut, a most excellent\narrangement as it makes it possible for the nurses\nto go from the mess hut to the recreation hut for the\nfree hours and hours off duty without a journey\nthrough the camp. The mud was overpowering and only\na f ew board walks have been built. Col. Edie says\nthat they have been ordered and will be in place\nbefore the rush of re-embarkation begins. L In some\nparts of the camp, it was almost impossible to get\nthrough even in the automobile, so that one wonders\nhow the nurses have been able to go from ward to ward\nand care for the patients. In almost all the wards\nI found the nurses actually caring for the patients\nThe spirit of the nurses was excellent. In one of thi\nwards, I met Miss Lord/one of the older Red Cross\nnurses who has had a great deal of training school\nand hospital experience. She told me that never in\nher life had she found more satisfactory work and was\nso happy that she was able to be in charge of a ward\nand able to take care of the soldiers.) Some of the\ncontagious wards were undecupied, but additional"
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