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Professionally trained graduate female nurses began to be used more widely in public health hospitals beginning about 1912. Public health nurses were used by the Public Health Service during World War I in camp sanitation work and in special clinics. Their work included general district nursing, tuberculosis nursing, school nursing, infant welfare, visiting in mill villages, emergency communicable disease control, and venereal disease clinic work. Here a public health nurse visits rural patients.
c. 1920
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