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One was how understaffed the medical field was at this period in time. She explains how there were not enough nurses or doctors to take care of all the patients that had been affected by the influenza. Another thing that is represented with great detail is how at first the nurses were at disarray on what to do about the patients. Davies explains that as time passed that they started to understand what steps they needed to take in order to keep their patients in better health, and keep themselves from getting sick. In all, Elizabeth J. Davies writing on the influenza that struck Camp Lewis in Washington was lacking in many aspects, but it also had a few things that showed the reader how the epidemic was handled in this particular case. Davies writing should have gone into much more detail then what it did, and if it had done this, the reader would have been able to comprehend the significance of her