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Answering call for volunteer nurses aides. The call for 100,000 volunteer nurses aides to relieve the acute shortage of graduate nurses is answered by Negro housewives and mothers throughout the country. At Freedmen's Hospital in Washington, D.C. where an eighty-hour training courses has been in progress since last October. Volunteers begin practical training in the central dressing room. Photo shows Mrs. Louis Lucas (left) and Miss Susie Freeman (right) wrapping bandages

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