Evening journal., 1919-02-15

on constant duty serving day and night
In all parts OF the oity. Tho generos-
ity Of owners OF private cars, IN great
many instances the owners operating
the cars themselves. carrying sup
plies and taking doctors and visiting
nurses from house to house upon their
visits OF mercy, augmented the motor
service materially.
The work OF the Bureau OF Hygiene,
Mrs Joseph Bancroft, chairman, dur
ing the influenza epldemlc, was so
closely affiliated with the Bureau OF
Nursing Service that Mrs. Bancroft re-
quested a report of Miss e. b Hayes,
secretary OF the Bureau OF Nursing
Service, appointed by the Public
Health Committee, to serve as director
OF nursing personnel for the Country
Clvb emergency hospital. Miss Hayes
report is, in part, as follows:
AT the beginning Of the epidemic a
meeting was called by the Board 81
Health to which Mary It. Lockwood, r..
~, chairman OF the Red Cross Nursing
Service OF Delaware and myself as Sec
retary were invited. II was decided TO
accept the Wilmington Country Club
as an emergency hospital for the cpl
demic. The local Red Cross Nursing
Service was asked to furnish the nurs-
ing personnel, for the emergency hos
pltal at the Country Club, and was
appointed as their representative. The
Red Cross chapter agreed to furnish
the beds and bedding complete which
they had in reserve for such an emer-
gency and 10 have 25 beds sent out At
once. Miss Jeanette Duncan, Red Cross
Nurse, was appointed superintendent Of
the hospital. On September 2S, Satur-
day, Miss Duncan, Miss Nellie Living
ston, a Red Cross nurse aid, and went
out and started to get the hospital
ready BY Monday evening we were
ready 10 receive patients and by s
O'Clock had IS very sick men, five OF
whom were delirious and one dying in
lhe Country Club hospital Miss Dun
can received papers from Washington
TO go to one Of the army camps. She
remained at the Country Club by spec
lal permission from General Gorgas
while the need was so great and when
finally she had to be released she was
succeeded by Miss r. Mabel Bowser, r
C. NJ, superintendent OF the Milford
Hospital. who remained until the emer-
gency hospital was closed. During and
since the epidemic fourteen nurses
have answered the country's call, four
OF whom went to camps In this coun-
try and three on foreign duty and sew
en- gave their lives to the cause.
Among the four to go TO camps were
Miss Jeanette F. Duncan, Miss Amy ].
Wood, Miss Ethel Spence, Miss Dorothy
Filbert
The three who left for France are
Miss Dolly Coleman, Miss Margaret Nc
Williams and Miss Lavina Neely.
The seven who gave their lives are
Miss Elsie Began, Miss Ethel Tammany,
Miss Mary A. Dwyer, Miss Anna Boe-
man, Miss Lille /. Campbell and two
sisters Misses Carrie Dybeck and huth
Dybeck. Six OF these noble sef-ssc-i-
flcing girls were graduates or under
graduates Of the Delaware hospital.
The other was employed by the visit
ing nurses association.
When the epidemic started the Nurs-
ing Service sent out appeals In all the
papers for nurses, graduate and prac-
tical nurses, aides and any one who had
any sort of nursing experience at all.
The spirit with which this call was
answered was wonderful Delaware
may well be proud Of her women.
There were also nurses brought In
from other States to help, one or whom
want specially to mention. Mrs. Rus
sell C. Lane, r. ~, was on the train en-
route to her home in Ovid, N. Y, when
she saw in the papers the appeal for
nurses and doctors in Wilmington TO
help in the epidemic. She had been
married only three months and her
husband was a soldier. stationed II