- T1900:0001
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- 1975
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Mrs. Tommy Barrons : public health nurse for forty years PERIOD COVERED: 1935-1975 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1975 SUMMARY: Mrs. Tommy Barrons discusses why she became a nurse. Strict rules for nurses in training. The class of 1937. Attitudes toward women doctors and nurses. Racial and religious discrimination. Training as a public health nurse in Hawaii, Oregon, Florida, Mexico, California -- studying and working in health departments. The Mauna Loa eruption and the Korean War. Lepers on Molokai. Problems of a black family in Miami. Changes in nursing over forty years.;