The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-11-06
Writes About
NdUy Hospital

Miss Ethel Stanford. Fargo. former
chairman OF the Red Cross Nursing
Service committee In North Dakota.
also former president OF the North
Dakota State Nurses association.
writes home Interestingly from the
! Z. S. navy hospital at Puget Sound.
Wash, where she was called into
service reccnmw as q Red Cross
nurse. Miss Stanford Ia a sister Of
Mrs. A. ]. o'Shea, and a daughter
Of Mrs. Cora D. Stanford. both Of
Fargo. In her most recent letter she
says. in part:
Dear Folks: The big inspection Is
over and we are all 80 glad. Friday
and Saturday and Monday were what
are called field days and the corps
men have no classes or drills. but just
work. The hospital was clean before
/ but by Tuesday il shone.
One night two or three weeks ago.
We were invited to a meeting for
forming a Y. ". C. A. The secre-
taTy, Miss Guthrie, il already here.
Since the war there are q large num-
Der OF girls and young women going
to work in the yard. Some take civil
service examinations and others do
not and they are called youmettes.
! II is very hard to get rooms for them
and in q town like Bremerton there
| is no social life. So the 7. W. c. A.
formed q national council and raised
a large sum Of money to use for
Miss Guthrie here with so much
money to start things. She has secur-
ed the top story OF q new building.
There will be q club room. 50xSo
feet, and gymnasium q little larger.
She expects them to be ready in an
other week. II il to be called the
Young Women's club Of the Y. w.
G. A. OF Bremerton. Her salary and
all the expenses are paid by the
council. Each member pays q dollar
q year. The 7. N. c. A. has build
ings in the yard and comes to see
the men in the hospital.
We are supposed to have twelve
hospital corps men to a ward. but
so far two have always been on
leave and one has outside detail in
the most important part Of the day.
Then II takes two in the serving
room who carry chow. serve trays,
wash dishes and keep the serving
room clean. These two generally do
nothing else. Then there are two in
the treatment room who give medi-
cines, treatments and these help in
the wards when their work is done
there.
The patients come from the train
ing camp here, the camp in Seattle
and there are a few boats stationed
here.
When the war started instead OF
putting on an addition the main
building they built eight one-story
wooden buildings, each Of which
holds twelve beds. Last week twenty
hospitals corps men came up from
Goat Island and tomorrow twenty
Of those who have been here the
longest 90 to Minneapolis. thres
from this ward and there are such
good workers. There is q training
camp in Minneapolis for mechanics
etc. Am very sorry to have these
boys go but in another week every
one will have his detail changed
anyway. We have two OF the new
ones working here now and they
seem like nice ones. but strange tC
i the work.
Miss Poland (who Is several times
mentioned as O co-worker Of Miss
Stanford has q sister who married
Roy Dynes, who used to live on the
north side in Fargo.
1T is very nice here during the day
but foggy morning and evening. The
natives keep saying that 1t is going
to start raining soon.
With love,
Ethel z. Stanford, r. N"