Monday Night
July 10^th, 1944

My Dear;

Have been pretty busy as per usual. By the time I get home from San Francisco, 6:30, I’m really too tired to care whether or not I eat dinner and really want to flop into bed and let things go at that.

Field work is quite fascinating, but I know so little about this type of nursing. To me, Public Health Nursing seems so much more professional than a hospital routine- where one does the same thing day in and day out. In P.H.N one actually helps a human soul in a unique way, by helping him to solve his own problems. It seems that the keynote of this new gospel is prevention of illness and defects, etc, through education for every phase of life. On Saturday, I have an appointment to visit “Planned Parenthood” office- “Maternal Health Clinic” and since that is one of my monomaniacs. I want to really take it all in! You know by now that I believe in birth control in extreme low econs. groups and in case physical or mental defects which may be continual in next generation, while, on the other hand, I think the healthy and higher econ. bracket of people should be encouraged to have a family. More [con’t]