THE DEMONSTRATION WORK 



kitchen from the domestic science department, and in a few hours 

 time the city worker and I had secured trucks from firms in 

 Augusta and carried all of the equipment from the Home Demon- 

 stration kitchen and from the school out to our new hospital. The 

 helpers placed the equipment and in the meantime I went to town 

 in a truck and loaded up with a supply of groceries. I visited the 

 milk supply companies, the meat houses, and other places, to make 

 arrangements for regular orders. 



**By the next day at noon the departments were beginning to 

 be organized and I was acting as one of the dietitians and in charge 

 of purchasing and planning for both kitchens. Miss McAlpine was 

 first assistant in the diet kitchen. Miss Eve, a domestic science 

 teacher of Augusta, took charge of the nurses' kitchen, and then 

 we had a stall in which all dishes were sterilized. I appointed four 

 of the teachers to do that, as they could alternate, two for each 

 day. There were numbers of young teachers who helped in each 

 department. I had some to assist in dishwashing and other duties 

 who had never found it necessary to know an ice pick from the 

 refrigerator; but they made one bold effort and rendered splendid 

 services. 



^*As true as his word, the director had the patients brought in 

 at noon on the following day. A Red Cross ambulance, with 

 stretchers and physicians and men to lift out the patients, rolled 

 up at the once-called barn, but then a lovely hospital. Every 

 worker had been notified to wear masks, aprons and caps. This 

 was a scene that looked like Hallowe 'en night, when the first patient 

 was brought in. From every corner of the building you could see 

 figures draped in hospital aprons, white caps and flu masks. Their 

 eyes were the only features that could be seen. We all had a 

 peculiar feeling when we realized that we were actually in the 

 building with the flu all around us. All before this there was 

 laughter to be heard above the sawing and hammering of the work- 

 men, but not a sound after the first visit of the ambulance, except 

 an occasional groan of the patients. 



''This peculiar feeling soon left all the kitchen workers, for 

 an order came from the house physician for three kinds of diets, 

 liquid, soft and regular, besides milk formulas to be prepared for 

 the sick. From the nurses ' kitchen there was to be served a supper 



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