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God be with you till we meet again (1918)

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Re: God be with you till we meet again (1918)

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Post by Waterluvian »

Insanity wrote: post #10
bArray wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm sure if we start a Twitter storm about it, we can get him cancelled. /s Personally I think it was just observational, perhaps they were the only women in the place, so they were the exception. From what I know, historically nurses have been mostly female - but would be interested to find out if this was different.

Yup that was my understanding as well. Not sure why I'm being downvoted, it was a genuine question lol

People are positively petrified of anything that even uses the same words as politically incorrect speech.

Re: God be with you till we meet again (1918)

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Post by DoreenMichele »

Insanity wrote: post #6

Question, about this part of the letter: "I have four day nurses and five night nurses (female) a ward-master, and four orderlies". Does anyone know why it was important to point out they were female? Were army nurses typically male? Anyways, I'm reading about the 1918 flu a lot lately and came upon parts of this text multiple times. I'm still not sure if it's making me more or less paranoid about Covid-19, but it's…

This gives me a cert warning, but it quotes something in a way that implies that may have been sort of the formal designation: Nurses Corps (female)

https://history.amedd.army.mil/ANCWebsite/articles/malenurse...

I've googled around a bit and when Florence Nightingale did her thing, it was mostly male nurses in the military. By early 1900s, this had changed, at least in the US, and most nurses were female.

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Post by prox »

ekianjo wrote: post #12
prox wrote: post #2

I found a newspaper message from the 19th century that described a flu that gave pneumonia and undertakers hadn’t seen anything like it since the Cholera epidemics, this article was from Spain around 1840’s.

do you have a copy?

I have, but it is old Dutch. Don’t know if that is of help... I am still going through the archives for older mentions.

Re: God be with you till we meet again (1918)

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Post by agustif »

prox wrote: post #15
ekianjo wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

do you have a copy?

I have, but it is old Dutch. Don’t know if that is of help... I am still going through the archives for older mentions.

Can you provide specific dates to try and find something in Spanish?

Re: God be with you till we meet again (1918)

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Post by Insanity »

DoreenMichele wrote: post #13
Insanity wrote: post #6

Question, about this part of the letter: "I have four day nurses and five night nurses (female) a ward-master, and four orderlies". Does anyone know why it was important to point out they were female? Were army nurses typically male? Anyways, I'm reading about the 1918 flu a lot lately and came upon parts of this text multiple times. I'm still not sure if it's making me more or less paranoid about Covid-19, but it's…

This gives me a cert warning, but it quotes something in a way that implies that may have been sort of the formal designation: Nurses Corps (female) https://history.amedd.army.mil/ANCWebsite/articles/malenurse... I've googled around a bit and when Florence Nightingale did her thing, it was mostly male nurses in the military. By early 1900s, this had changed, at least in the US, and most nurses were female.

Thanks, I suppose that might have been why indeed!
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