Dorothy Cotton Diary Page 46

This is a page from the diary of Dorothy Cotton, a nurse in the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF). This page talks about how she as a nurse took care of refugees during World War I. She talks about how they were provided with a small amount of food. It also states how cautious the refugees were in going into public to receive free soup and bread from community soup kitchens. This would have been, not only hard for the refugees, but difficult for the nurses, such as Dorothy Cotton, to psychologically endure and watch these refugees suffer from knowing that the refugees had to leave their lives entirely to trying to convince the refugees that there is food being provided in the public.