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    "ocrText": "PACIFIC DIVISION\nNo.\nCorr.\nTREASURY DEPARTMENT\nWhite\nNOTE\nUNITED STATES\nOFFICE OF\nPUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE\nMEDICAL OFFICER IN CHARGE\nU.S. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE\nTUCSON, ARIZ.\nHOSPITAL No. 51\nMarch 5,1922.\nMiss Lillian L.White,\nDirector, Department of Nursing,\nPacific Division, American Red Cross,\nSan Francisco, California.\nMy dear Miss White,\nI thank you for your letter of March 1st. Am sorry not\nto have written sooner, if I could have done so I would have.\nIt was not want of thought or intentional neglect, it was be-\ncause I did not know what to say or how to say it.\nIn reply ti your letter You will find enclosed a copy\nof a letter to the Surgeon General which gives you the infor-\nmation you ask for. (See Exhibit No.1 ) No direct reply\nor\nnotice, other than my transfer here has been taken of any of\nthese communications to the Surgeon General or Miss Minnigerode.\nIn the interview I had with Miss Minnigerode, November,\n1920, I asked her if it was in order for me to write you if I\nfelt the need of advice. Her reply led me to believe that you\nwere, through the Red Cross, the proper consultant for any trou-\nbles we might have in the Pacific Division although nothing you\nsaid would be official. During the fourteen months I was at Arrow-\nhead on a number of occassions I wrote you for advice regarding\ndisturbing features in the life there. Your response was always\nkind yet ineffectual in that I was thrown back upon my own wit and\nwisdom to work out the salvation as best I could. It was because\nyou could not help that you did not, I knew, so when the wrong\ndoing was a personal hurt to me I did not want to take it to you\nwhen you were not able to help in matters that related to the well-\nbeing and comfort of the patients and nurses. It would have dis-\ntressed you not to have helped me and might have injured either\nyou or the Red Cross if you had. Knowing you, and knowing what I\nwould have done in a like case, I felt sure you would have jumped a\nto my rescue, so I took matters up as they should have been done,\nthrough official channels only. Major Duncan MacCalman was here\nthe early part of February, as nothing had been heard from the\nBureau except the transfer of a Chief Nurse here from New Orleans,\nI took the matter up with him. He told me he would be in Arrow-\nhead in June and would take the matter up then. This did not satis-\nfy me so he suggested that I send a second copy of the letter of\nJanuary 17th tonthe Surgeon General with a request for attention.\nJust here is where my patience with official channels ruptured.\nOn February 18th I wrote Miss Jamme, unofficially, because she is\nmember of the National Committee Red Cross Nursing Service, ask-\na ing her advice about writing Miss Noyes. Before her reply reached"
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