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Letter from Meg Portwood to Daniel Sheridan, June 15, 1981

Meg Portwood, a family nurse practitioner in Lincoln City, Oregon responded to Daniel Sheridan, and wrote that there was no nursing care at the shelter in her area. She described the counseling support in and outside of the shelter for women who were battered and seeking help. She explained that women and their children received any needed health or nursing care at a private physician's office or in the emergency room.

Courtesy National Library of Medicine

Typewritten text on a page.