SOME QUALIFICATIONS OF THE WOMAN COUNTY AGENT 



asked the Home Demonstration Agent to organize the fight 

 against it. She and her assistant began at once to look for 

 buildings which would accomodate several thousand patients, 

 for there were many regiments of soldiers camped near 

 Augusta, the county seat, as well as a large city population to 

 care for. They selected the buildings on the Georgia-South 

 Carolina Fair grounds. The live stock barn was to be the main 

 hospital. It had large windows, three wings, a rotunda, and 

 dirt floors. Soon the advice and help of a physician and a 

 nurse were secured. Then they proceeded to select and plan 

 different departments. The county agent described the situa- 

 tion as follows : 



** Stalls (where prize cows and horses were kept last fall) were 

 chosen this fall for drug rooms, linen closets, supply rooms, nurses ' 

 and helpers' quarters. The rotunda was chosen for the office, as 

 it had a post in the center from which a light could be suspended 

 and a telephone could be installed. The heads of each department 

 were notified to be ready for patients by noon on the following 

 day. We saw at once that help was the next thing needed, so there 

 was a call meeting of the public school teachers. The president of 

 the Board of Health explained the situation to them, and asked that 

 each would volunteer for some particular line of work, such as nurs- 

 ing, kitchen, or cleaning, and go with us to the fair grounds for 

 work. In a few hours, physicians, nurses, dietitians, art teachers, 

 music teachers, society girls, bookkeepers, carpenters, plumbers, 

 etc., were all hammering, painting, sweeping, raking and digging 

 and shoveling in the live stock building. Those who were formerly 

 teachers of art and music were busily engaged in white-washing 

 Daisy's stall, while other dainty white hands, nearby, were wash- 

 ing windows, and raking out stalls. In the gallery there were car- 

 penters and plumbers putting in shelves, installing sinks and making 

 water connections, tacking up tar paper to screen off a diet kitchen 

 and serving room. On the first floor just beneath this were workmen 

 placing a stove that had been used at Camp Hancock to accommo- 

 date the patients who had pneumonia and influenza. 



**The Superintendent of Schools offered the equipment for the 



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