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    "ocrText": "June 18, 1918.\nMr. Light M. Hoopa, Chairman,\nCouncil of Defense,\nMontgomery, Ala.\nMy dear Mr. Hooper:\nConcerning your letter in regard to Miss Ethel Trainor, which mat-\ntor Was referred to this office for adjustment, I beg to state that\nMiss Trainor was enrolled for service with the Orthopedic Hospital,\nBase Hospital 114.\nWhen this Hospi al was called out the nurses were mobilized in the\nvarious cantonments pending the sailing of the hospital. Miss Trainon\nreceived a telegram from the Superintendent of the Army Nurse Corps,\nsimilar to one sent to every other nurse on the hospital, asking if\nshe would accept temporary contonment service until the mobilizing of\nthe hospital for foreign service. Miss Trainor refused this assignment\nwhich was accepted by every other nurse on Base Hospital 114.\nIt is not the policy of the Surgeon General's Office to assign to\nforeign Service nurses who refuse even temporary service in this country.\nTherefore, Mies Trainor was notified from the Surgeon General's Office\nthat she would not be consider x for foreign service under the Army.\nWe regret very much that Miss Trainor took this attitude as it\nplaces it out of the power of the Red Cross Department of Nursing to\ngive her an assignment in a military hospital abroad. we are, however,\nwilling to pla a Miss Trainor in one of our Red Cross Units for Service\nin France as a surgical nurse, tho if she accepts this service she\nmust be willing to accept whatever detail the representatives of the\nNursing Service in France give her upon arrival in France.\nYou will see, I am sure,and readily understand that at this and\nwe could not definitely assign a nurse to any service, as the situation\nin France changes from day to day and the nurses sant over under the\nRed Cross are expected to accept any assignment deemed necessary by\nthe representatives in France.\nI have written Miss Trainor that we will attach her to one of these\nUnits if she wishes it and also that Wo would expect her to accetp what-\never assignment our representative in Paris details her b. All that we\ncan do is to state the qualificati ns of our nurses and recommend that\nthey be assigned to that service.\nHoping tis explanation is satisfactory, I am,\nVery truly yours,\nLM/A\nDirector, Bureau of Field Nursing Service."
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