Not knowing exactly who to take the matter up with I am taking the liberty of writing you relative to some improvements which I think should be made at the N.C. Sanatorium at Montrose N.C. There is only one Graduate Nurse on the place Miss Guthrie I have heard that she is not a Graduate She may be doing the best she can. My wife is a patient there and I feel sure that as sick as she is and several more Ladies there also who are helpless. Besides what Miss Guthrie does for them there are two or three patients who do the nursing when they really are hardly able to do it. The location and surroundings at Montrose is ideal and I feel that much good could be done at this institution if we had sufficient help and nurses. I think a competent physician should be there at all times since it seems so necessary for Dr Street to be absent so much. The food is often half cooked and indigestible and often of such nature that a sick person cannot eat it. The patients in the west end of the ward in the afternoon are not protected the least from the sun except to keep umbrellas over their faces which is a deplorable condition which could easily be remedied I have not talked to Dr Street as I suppose he has no authority to make these repairs or improvements. I understand two patients died there this week without a Doctor on hand at the time. In my opinion the whole place seems to run on a system that savors of too much economy & stinting than is necessary and is conducive for the welfare of those unfortunates who have to live and die there If anything can be done to improve matters a great number of patients and their people will be very grateful to you for your interest in them

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