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23 January 1909 — Ca’ Capello, Venice | |
Saturday. 23rd [January 1909]. I got up & went into the studio for a while pretty weak. Sunday on 17th Nela had arrived from England to stay with me– We had not met for more than 3 years when I left her at Nuwara Eliya with Miss Barbara Layard—I to come home & she to go on to Australia– One day this week Countess Giustina Valmarana started for Naples on purpose to take there 2 English trained nurses that I wanted to send to help in the hospitals wh are so full of wounded from Messina & Reggio. There was a nurse Brightwell who had been in our hospital here to spend Christmas & had returned to the Florence nursing Home. She & a nurse [illegible word] joined Css Valmarana at Florence & went on with her to Naples where she placed them in the “Incurabile” hospital & there they did good work. I paid their expenses & they gave their services gratis. They write sad accounts of the bad state of the hospital where the patients lie on sacking without sheets & suffer from bed sores. After my influenza I was in doors for some time & only got out in time to go to the barracks of San Daniele to see the arrival of the 170 refugees what were sent us by the Committee of Refugees at Naples. It was a sad procession of dazed creatures, men women & children who had been 2 days & night in the train. They had been fed at the station on their arrival there & on getting to San Daniele they had their clothes changed & were washed before they were put into their quarters. I did not stay to see them settled as there were many ladies of the Red Cross to do the necessary work. | |
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