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94 LMS Box 19, 1913 No 340 Di Gibson to Mi Lenwood, 18 June, 1913 Enclosure - Maternity Hospital Statistics, 1912

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In her Annual Report of 1940, Matron Ward reported 'girls taken their turn at male nursing so naturally that we almost forget we ever worked in any other way' Report of the Alice Memorial and Affiliated Hospitals for the year 1940, p 9

96. It is interesting that this principle underlay the use of "barefoot doctors" in China's recent history, and is a direction endorsed by the Alma-Ata recommendations of the World Health Organization in 1978 It can be argued that this policy direction reflects not race, but a rational and appropriate use of scarce resources.

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