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    "ocrText": "TREASURY DEPARTMENT\nUNITED STATES\nOFFICE OF\nPUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE\nMEDICAL OFFICER IN CHARGE\nU.S. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE\nTUCSON, ARIZ.\nHOSPITAL No. 51\nAugust 22,1922.\nMiss Clara D. Noyes,\nDirector, Department of Nursing,\nAmerican Red Cross,\nWashington, D.C.\nMy dear Niss Noyes,\nI thank you for your very nice letter of August 5th.\nI will be interested to hear from you after the October Meet-\ning of the A.N. A. Directors. It will be better for you to bring\nthe matter of a section for Government Nurses before them. I am\ncurious to know the attitude Miss Minnigerode shows toward it, if\nthe is for it I will get the surprise of my life. The morning\nbefore I left Seattle Miss Eldridge and I happened to enter the\ndining room together so we ate breakfast at the same table. I asked\nher what the possibilities were for something of the same kind.\nShe was not prepared to answer and I was only beginning to think\naround the subject then, I said I would discuss it a bit with\nother Service Nurses then weite her. Later on I thought it was\nwiser to get your ppinion before starting something that perhaps\nmight nor be desirable.as Miss White's reaction to the sugges-\ntion was not at all favorable. She did not put her mind to it,\nonly saw it in its troubled beginningsand was prettybwell fraz-\nzled out with her lame leg and the happenings of those last few\ndays, so nothing looked bright to her at that moment. Miss White\ndoes not know the life the Government Nurseslive in these hos-\npitals, no one does except the nurses who live it. Hearing about\nit only gives one side and there are many sides that it takes\nactual experience to show up. The three years that I have spent\nin the Government service has made me think that seventy five\nper cent of our thoubles are the fault of the Nursing Profession,\nas individuals and as a group. If the National Organization\nwould recognize conditions; would make an effort to interest\nnurses who had outstanding good qualities as nurses and as women,\nto enter the service; would check up on living conditions of the\nnurses after they enter; would show to the Service Nurses and to\nthe Directors of the Bureaus that one of the most important bodies\nof Nursesiin the world had as thoughtful care for its responsibility\ntowards a perfect nursing service in the Government hospitalssas\nitehad for the education of the Student Nurse; would show the\nService Nurses an appreciation of the importance of the work\nthey are doing, that no work was more worthy of hohor than making"
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