To the editor:
Thank you for the fine article about the circus fire of 1944 [“A Tragedy’s Medical Aftermath,” Capsule, Spring 2000]. My late husband’s (Albert S. Atwood, M.D. ’45) account of his classmates’ help with the disaster obviously stirred up many vivid memories.
I was a student nurse at Hartford Hospital at the time. I recall how uncomfortable and helpless the victims of the fire were and how much care they needed from the staff. I am grateful that the medical students’ part in the tragedy was able to be told.
Harriet Atwood
Stonington, Conn.
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