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Show Nurse Recalls War Days of '93 VAN NUYS, CALIF. Favorite patient of doctors and nurses at Birmingham veterans hospital here is Florence Robinson, 92, a nurse 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 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 of her own school. When she began her career in 1898 during a typhoid epidemic at Chick-amauga Chick-amauga Park, Ga., nurses worked 12 hours a day in thick mud caring car-ing for men who lay on rough boards in tents. Pay was $30 a month. Ambulances at that time were horse-drawn wagons. |