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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14738, 18 October 1918, Page 6

Fifty thousand women will be needed by Ist July next year to assist m the care of the sick and wounded of the American army, 'Surgeon-General Gorgas stated recently m announcing that young wives with husbands fighting m Franc* would be accepted aa hospital assistants. The vast majority of the 50,000 women must be trained nurses and available fox service overseas to supplement the supply of graduate nurses. The Army Medical Department has established the Arm ji Sohool of Nursing, at which physically fit young women between 21 and 35 years will be trained and sent abroad as the need arises. Fully 15,000 women can be used as hospital assistants ox student nurses m the United States.