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Letters to Laura Davis, 1944

1944-09-29 Mrs. A.P. Sloan to Laura Davis Page 2

2) In the interim I called Mrs. Hunt to see to whom I would refer such a case. She said that we could refer it to her department
As last I got Taylor and such a garbled mess. Miss. Strahan went on & on - the woman was [flowing?] & couldn't get out of bed. Three little children, a grandmother who had pneumonia - a husband in service - no one to care for any of the them - she was going to call Miss Vogt or Officer Davis. She had sent (almost by force I learned later) the school nurse. 
The only logical information I received was the grandmother's telephone number & the woman's address. I reported these to Mrs Hunt & she called Red Cross to see if they had such a case. After minutes later the school nurse called and then I got the name and the manner in which the contact was made. A child didn't arrive at school so the teacher went to the house at 9:05 a.m. That also is odd procedure but Taylor procedes peculiarly.
After about one half day had passed and five agencies had been drawn in, it developed that it is an active Red Cross case & all that needed to be done was being done. 
However, the next chapter began with appearance of the three children at VanBuren. Here they were left. The teachers isolated them, fed them & put them to bed while Red Cross made plan for medicals

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2) In the interim I called Mrs. Hunt to see to whom I would refer such a case. She said that we could refer it to her department As last I got Taylor and such a garbled mess. Miss. Strahan went on & on - the woman was [flowing?] & couldn't get out of bed. Three little children, a grandmother who had pneumonia - a husband in service - no one to care for any of the them - she was going to call Miss Vogt or Officer Davis. She had sent (almost by force I learned later) the school nurse. The only logical information I received was the grandmother's telephone number & the woman's address. I reported these to Mrs Hunt & she called Red Cross to see if they had such a case. After minutes later the school nurse called and then I got the name and the manner in which the contact was made. A child didn't arrive at school so the teacher went to the house at 9:05 a.m. That also is odd procedure but Taylor procedes peculiarly. After about one half day had passed and five agencies had been drawn in, it developed that it is an active Red Cross case & all that needed to be done was being done. However, the next chapter began with appearance of the three children at VanBuren. Here they were left. The teachers isolated them, fed them & put them to bed while Red Cross made plan for medicals