Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-10-16
Mostly About People

Perhaps it's only the "flu'' patients who
appreciate fully the service, professional
and amateur or instead Of amateur,
let's call IL willing, because their hands
were so very willing and ANXIOUS 70 help
that has been given during the epidemic.
And another thought may put II 70 the on
locker or the workers themscIEes, each 70
appreciate for the others, how wonder
fully fine And effective their Ifc-saying
work has been. For IL was all life-sayng,
whether you were professional Or Just
a helper, whether YOU had taken a course
in preparation, or whether you lent your
self and your common sense, whether
You gave baths or made brofhs, whether
YOU cooked and washed dishes or scrubbed
floors or made beds Every bit of work flt-
ted in, and every bit was needed IN the
great demand, that swamped the supply
for the first week Of the disease that ragged
ia s1ch manner that il reminded us 81 tho
great plague OF 1866, as we read Of u
described In Master Daniel DE Foes good
plain Eighteenth Century English
Now that emergency hospitals and re-
lief agencies of all kinds are organized and
running smoothly, and the plague ravages
halted, there is tune to take breath and
think about who did these fine things who
worked day and night n take care of
"fu" cases, and to whom these patients
can be grateful Their gratitude is one of
the outstanding features Of the epidemic
as all who have worked in the Crisis will
testify No matter now ignoranf, bow
destitute in knowledge of English, no
matter how weak or how racked with
cough, these patients always manage to
thank their doctors and nurses for every
little attention, and this is something that
the nurses and doctors will always re-
member, as the very finest part of the or
deal
In ali the thousands Of homes where
the disease III there are Of course, wonder
fully kind attentions being gwen, and
these ran never be recorded Care and
attention and cheeriness can. however, he
remembered and kept as n kind If tradi-
tion IN the emergency hospitals Thirh
after while will assume their Wonted
places in our community life, because
the Country Club and the Century Club
will not always DE hospitals
At the Century Club where the ship
builders have been cared ior, there have
been fewer volunteer workers than any
where else. but they have had splendid
care, first, from Mrs James r. Nields.
and then after she got III, from Miss
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Pa Miss Sarah Evans has acted as
registrar, and Miss Roth and Miss /.-7
nave been the nurses, while severa.
high school girls have done good work
as nurses aids. Mrs. O Curtis Purdy
and Mrs Eugene T. du Pont have acted
as aids, TOO, and several other ladies.
The two new floors at the Homeo-
pathic Hospital have been used prin-
cipally for convalescent cases. and mere
the lack Of nurses was depl0rable during
the first week. Now they are getting
along well. with Miss Olive Kirkbv Of
Montreal. Can, as head nurse. Miss
Tacie Matthews and Miss Margaret
Garrett assisting Miss Marion Beaden-
kopf, one of the home nursing graduates
from the Red Cross Teaching enter
and Mrs. Henry Downing he Teaching
Center dietlclan. are heading the voun-
teers there. and some others are Miss
Miriam Webb, Miss Elizabeth Jackson
Miss Ethel Bonham. Mrs 'harle5 Ken
worthy, Miss Gertrude Casperson. Miss
Margaret Wilson. Mrs John B Bird, Mrs
Morton Poole. Mrs Arthur Lind, Mr.
Allen, and Mrs Frank Stephens md
Mrs Graham. Miss ~ophle BIRD ald
Miss Sislev Of Arden. Messrs. Cooch
and Bounds of Delaware College Ild
splendid service Is ambulance drivers