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This circa 1916 photograph shows the White Hospital’s nursing corps sitting on the building’s front steps. In existence between 1911 and 1924, and located at Twenty-Ninth and J Streets, the hospital classified its nurses into two groups: undergraduate and graduate. As a teaching hospital, student nurses were put to work and occasionally sent on house calls. Nurses in training, also referred to as undergraduates could be had for four dollars a day or 25 dollars a week, whereas a graduate nurse could be called for 50 dollars a week. In-house patients who desired a private nurse were required to rent a private room and would pay according to the rates listed above. When the hospital closed its doors, many of its nurses simply walked a few blocks away to work at the Sutter Hospital which had just been opened in 1923 at Twenty-Eighth and L Streets.
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