Show bacalis war days oi of 98 VAN NUYS CALIF favorite patient ot of doctors and nurses at birmingham veterans hospital here Is florence robinson 92 a nurse ot of the spanish american war although blind for the last nine years miss robinson keeps to a busy schedule at the hospital miss robinson has never worn a uniform when she enlisted in the nurses corps in 1838 1898 it was the first time the government had included nurses in the armed forces and there were no prescribed uniforms each nurse wore the uniform ol of her own school when she began her career in 1898 1808 during a typhoid epidemic at chickamauga park ga nurses worked 12 hours a day in thick mud caring for men who lay on rough boards in tents pay was 30 a month ambulances at that time were horse drawn wagons |