Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

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devoted to the use of chow. You know that s the food. "It is
served for all. There are two schoolrooms, each accom
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fifty children, mrtling and afternoon sessions. The tea em are refugees.
The ARC gives clothing, shoes, food and housing For these people.
All able-bodied mn are obliged to work and pay for part of the food for
theme-ms and families. The women go to the sewing roo@ where refugee
garmnts are made. They are paid by the garmnt. At Sixth Vimta POPtress
there is a Tlat little building with a Russian GrtWdox cross over
it, used as a church.
"The rear of this-building has a ch;wming schoolroam. The teachers are
bright, clean wholesom women. One is mrried arid teachipg in spite of
the fact that she has a baby. Th& Vimta Sixth Fortress bas a pup of
small buildings for porters, about six or eight families $n each."
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A. "She [one of the mthem;] insisted upon kissing h-d evem few steps as
she follcwed me &--I, . you " how. didn't want her to c@ that--"The people
are very m h cleaner thanfthase at *&cond River. Many ctf them are Lettish.
Tne Virsta Sixth has a bakery where huge round loaves arre baked far'the refugees
at both places, points about three miles apart. @ere arr s@ll
emrgency hospitals at both places with a Russian sister 5-1 charge Qf each.
I could readily see the necessity for having a public heqlth nurse GPlth expedence
and training assigned to the work at once, as b$ies were $adly
in need of saneme to supervise their reedings.
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There are m y cases of pregnancy which need watching. me smr wnths
ma the bad sanitation causes mch diarrhea and there a,m abscesses and
sMn emuptions in need of attention. At Sixth Virsta t&re dwells one
native who in his early days was a ra&lmad construction engineer. His hone
is partially used for the hospital. A beaut-ifhl garden munds it. There
is a little smr house on a prominent point f'rom whichlone can see a great
distance in mmy directions.
ll'JfheL natives tell that the-czar (when he was still-a &a
inspect construction of the fortification and spent many
this smr house. I had lunch in it which is as near a
knowing the czar. On our =turn we rdltnessed a troup of
the mat beautirul horses I have ever seen in rrg lffe.
a barracks in this vicinity and are present everywhere,
otheE-aXUed force," I'm thMcing about the war, you se
Japan.
Q. bhy were they still there?
A. Well, they just wanted to just get ahold of them.
Q. Tney hadn't thrown them out yet?
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