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    "ocrText": "Quoted from page 327 of Public Health Nursing of June 1945\nNEWS AND VIEWS\nHIGHLIGHTS ON WARTIME NURSING\nARMY NURSE GOES TO WAR\n\"The doors of 465 Fifth Avenue, New York City, opened April 27, 1945, at\n3 p.m., offering to the public a vivid display and pictorial exhibit of the ac-\ntivities of \"The Army Nurse in War\". Initiated and developed by the Army Medi-\ncal Corps under the supervision of Surgeon General Kirk, with the cooperation\nof the American Nurses' Association and the American Red Cross, the exhibit ran\nthrough May 9, 1945, achieving a total attendance of 21,000, of whom over 3,000\nwere nurses. It will be shown in the principal cities of states where the\navailable nurse census is high - the next stop being Philadelphia, as soon as\narrangements can be completed.\n\"In addition to picture blow-ups along the walls of the hall showing the\nhistory of nursing from medieval times through nursing in all the wars, the\nArmy set up and staffed actual replicas of a field operating tent, small ward\ntent, nurses' quarters in the field (all complete with lifelike figure dummies\nrealistically bandaged and painted with mercurochrome), a section of the fly-\ning ambulance, and lay-outs of surgical equipment and field medical kits.\nEach of these displays was in charge of an Army nurse who explained the tech-\nniques and improvisation shown. A tent theater took up a sizeable portion of\nthe rear of the hall and sound movies, part of the Army Pictorial Service re-\nstricted film library, were shown five times daily. These covered a variety\nof activities in which the Army nurse plays a major part: evacuation of the\nwounded, medical service in Normandy and in the jungle, the field hospital,\nreconditioning convalescents, and the evacuation hospital. Information booths,\nstocked with pertinent literature, were staffed by the American Red Cross,\nAmerican Nurses' Association, Army Nurse Corps, Civilian Defense Volunteer\nOrganization, Procurement and Assignment Service, and War Information - U. S.\nArmy.\n\"Army bus transportation was made available to schools of nursing\nthroughout the five boroughs of the City to facilitate the students' attend-\nance at the exhibit. One of the metropolitan high schools gave an additional\n5 points of credit to those pupils who visited the exhibit. They had cards\nwhich were stamped at the American Nurses' Association Booth for verification\nof their attendance, and they were required to report on the exhibit when\nthey returned to class the following day.\n\"The Canteen Group of the New York Chapter, American Red Cross, served\ncoffee and doughnuts during three of the afternoons that the exhibit was open.\nA display on victory gardening was also set up and staffed by volunteers."
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