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Show Women Will Be Called as Hospital Hos-pital Assistants to Care for American Sick and Wounded. WASHINGTON. Aug. 16 Fifty thousand women will be needed by July 1 next year to assist In the care of the sick and wounded of the American Amer-ican army, Surgeon-General Gorgas stated today In announcing that young wives with husbands fighting in France would be accepted as hospital assistants. The vast majority of the 50,000 women wo-men must be trained nurses and available avail-able for service overseas. To supplement sup-plement the supply of graduate nursea the army medical department has established es-tablished the army school of nursing at which physically fit young women between 21 and 35 will be trained and sent abroad as the need arises. Fully 15,000 women can be used as hospital assistants or student nurses in tho United States. |