Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-10-07
MISS ANNA NORTON
Caring for The Sick At Camp Hamilton. Ken
lucky.

Miss Anna Norton, daughter of Mrs.
Sarah Norton of this city has entered
the hospital service of Uncle Sam, and
is now caring for the sick in the general
hospital of the camp of the Sd division
1st army corps. otherwise known as
Camp Hamilton. and being situated near
Lexington. Ky. 5o
Miss Norton went from her home in this
city in 1891, and vert to Brooklyn where
she entered the Brooklyn city hospital as
a student nurse. Here she took the reg
ular two years coarse. and was gradu-
ated In 1898 a full fiedged professional
nurse. At the beginning of the war she
volunteered as an army nurse, but she
was not called to service until about three
weeks ago, when she was sent to Camp
Hamilton on short notice to assist in the
care of typhoid patients. Concerning
Miss Norton. a Southern correspondent
of the Boston Globe has written much
to Hallowell people. not few of whom
are acquainted with her.
From the day of her arrival" says the
Globe, Miss Mormon proved a veritable
ray of sunshine in the lives of the poor,
weak fellows who have fallen to her care.
She is a magnetic. CHEEKY. irresistibly
pleasing nurse, and all the boys in her
charge are in love with her. BY that it
is not to be inferred that they are SEN
timental. They have a deep and honest
attachment for their tireless little nurse
Of the sort that would make them take
off their coats and fight for her If il were
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working from early morning until
late at night Miss Norton seems never to
tire. She is all patience and good cheer.
and the moral effect of her presence on
the boys in her wards is wonderful.
She has charge of three convalescent
typhoid wards in the general hospital.
with about IS patients under her care.
She has a number of male nurses and
hospital stewards as subordinates, and
she keeps them adj up to the mark in
their duties.
Miss Norton is the embodiment of
Yankee grit and activity. and her person.
atty is in marked contrast to the women
one meets in Lexington, admiral BILE though
these daughters of Kentucky be. She is
a bundle of animated nerves and tissue.
AONoAAS
her profession and gave up a lucrative
practice in Brooklyn to nurse the soldiers
at 81 a day, with any kind of food that
might be handy into the bargain. 1t may
be said incidentally that the kind that
mas proved handiest to date has been a
very poor kind indeed.
But Miss Norton does not complain.
She says she is there to do as much
good as she can She is nursing because
she takes a deep interest in the work
She did not go into it as profession be-
cause she thought She had a special mis-
sion, to do good among the suffering
Like thousands of other New England
girls she found herself obliged to face the
world on her own resources. There was
not much to do down in Halloweil so she
decided she would cut out a road for her.
self and she took up nursing as a prom
Using profession.
miss Norton has had one unpleasant
experience in connection with her stay
here, and all because some of the Ken
lucky newspaper correspondents did not
understand her frank expressions OF
professional interest when the subject of
contagious diseases was discussed at the
camp one day. The little nurse from
Maine said she had observed most con-
tagious diseases and took an interest in
them. An enterprising correspondent
wrote her up as woman with rabid
desire to take. care of all sorts of loath- |
some patients. and as a result Miss Nor
ton came in for a lot of unpleasant no.
toriety from being pictured as a sort of |
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much, and was doubtless as much cast
down about 1t assshe would let herself |
DE, Tor 1T was a bit trying to be pointed |
out as the nurse who likes sma}lpox |
cases, when she was among strangers in
a strange land, and was working fol- all