Anonymous letter about the quality of WWI nurses

Title

Anonymous letter about the quality of WWI nurses

Description

An anonymous writer discusses the need for women committed to work overseas. He writes in startlingly unflattering terms about World War I nurses: "We need thousands of trained nurses, but have a plethora of fat, ungainly, slovenly women and anaemic, lean, lank and angular old maids. If some of the latter were to bend over my wounded cot my temperature would jump ten degrees at the sight of them."

Subject

World War I; First World War; Nurses; Nursing;

Date

9/11/1918

Format

21.5 x 28.0 cm

Language

eng

Type

Text

Identifier

WWI-592;
WWI-593;

Coverage

1918

Citation

“Anonymous letter about the quality of WWI nurses,” Knox College Experiences the First World War, accessed November 8, 2018, https://knoxcollege.omeka.net/items/show/900.

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