🧵#HistNursing Through my analysis of death certs of WW1 Nurses I’ve found some startling facts - to be shared in due course- 1 was high TB rates, TB was treated in a sanatorium on their return. A sanatorium was built in Christchurch in the hills www.heritage.org.nz/list-details...

At least 1 nurse had to walk from the last tram stop up the hill with ACTIVE TB because the army would not pay for a taxi. Soldiers were transferred by ambulance. Today I walked up the steep hill to the site. road now named Major Aitken Drive, an interesting story lytteltonwitch.com/2022/08/22/maj…