Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1919 — Army Nurses in Peace Times. [ARTICLE]

Army Nurses in Peace Times.

There is a coipsof regular army nurses maintained in peace times as well as in war times. When nurses volunteer under she Red Cross organization and enter the army service they assume the same status as that of the regular, corps of nurses. A nurse aid receives no pay for her* services. Transportation and maintenance, however, are supplied..'Nurses and nurse aids, sworn Into the government service through Red Cross channels, and all nurses employed by the army and navy are under the order of the army and navy medical departments. If a nurse or nurse’s aid is incapacitated through service, either in this country or abroad and thereafter, because of disability suffered w hile in the service. Is unable to provide for herself, there is not known under the law any means whereby she can secure the benefits of a pension. ' '■