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Helen Angell Fox letters to Bess Peebles Fox, January-May 1944

1944-01-04 Helen Fox to Miss Frances Camp Page 4

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by the army, a music room for listening to records a kitchen and several offices upstairs the regular staff lived and there was a wing reserved for use by relatives of seriously ill patients.
I liked the ward work even better than that in the hall, because the patients seemed to me to need it more. Each ward with more than four bed patients was covered three times a week by staff or Grey Ladies with crafts and about three times a week by entertainers with music, etc. Then, in addition, about once a week each ward had a game party.
I did a lot of work in the tuberculosis wards, and felt very odd flitting around in my mask and long robe. The patients were eager to do things, but tired easily and we had to be careful that they didn't increase their temperatures by getting excited over their string belts, etc. I also worked in the Post Operative ward, where many were very sick, and the G.U. (social disease) Ward, which was closed and where they were very appreciative of anything we brought in. In the Orthopedic Ward we had the problem of finding things armless or legless men could do, as well as those with limbs in pulleys.  They liked musical programs a lot.
Every day or so a Grey Lady took a book cart around to all the non-contagious wards and loaned books to the men.

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4 by the army, a music room for listening to records a kitchen and several offices upstairs the regular staff lived and there was a wing reserved for use by relatives of seriously ill patients. I liked the ward work even better than that in the hall, because the patients seemed to me to need it more. Each ward with more than four bed patients was covered three times a week by staff or Grey Ladies with crafts and about three times a week by entertainers with music, etc. Then, in addition, about once a week each ward had a game party. I did a lot of work in the tuberculosis wards, and felt very odd flitting around in my mask and long robe. The patients were eager to do things, but tired easily and we had to be careful that they didn't increase their temperatures by getting excited over their string belts, etc. I also worked in the Post Operative ward, where many were very sick, and the G.U. (social disease) Ward, which was closed and where they were very appreciative of anything we brought in. In the Orthopedic Ward we had the problem of finding things armless or legless men could do, as well as those with limbs in pulleys. They liked musical programs a lot. Every day or so a Grey Lady took a book cart around to all the non-contagious wards and loaned books to the men.