 The two nurses sailed on 30 July on the steamship "Patris" with the entire equipment and the supplies for the hospital.They reported to Dr. Jones at Niš on 25 August .On 30 August, Mabel Grouitch arrived in Serbia with Elizabeth Shelley, an American woman, who had been acting as her secretary in the United States, and who proceeded to Serbia to work in the baby hospital as a volunteer nurse.