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Forms to be Filled out for Each Interview
STATE
NAIVE OF WORKER
ADDRESS
DATE
SUBJECT
FORM A
Circumstances of Interview
New 'York
Clarence Weinstock
43 Morton Street
July 14, 1939
Nurses Story
1. Date and time of interview
2. Place of interview
New York Rospitel
3. Name and address of informant
4. Name and address of person, if any, who put you in
touch With informant.
5. Name and address of person, if any, accompanying you
6. Description of rpurn, house, surroundinj, et'.
FOLKLORE
NEW YORK
(Use as many additional sheets as necessary, for any of the forms,
each bearing the proper heading and the number to which the material
refers.)
STATE
NAME OF WORKER
ADDRESS
DATE
SUBJECT
FORM C
TEXT OF INTERVIEW UNED I TED)
New York
Clarence Weinstock
43 Morton Street
July 14, 1939
Nurse's Story
"BOBBED HUN"
FOLKLORE
NEW YORK
Many years ago one of the junior nurses was fired for
having her hair bobbed. I was far from being conscious of
anything going on in the outside world at that time. I didn't
even know what organisation was, but I got all the girls
together and told them we'd have to put a stop to that. We
decided that everyone of us vould get her hair out even though
we didn't care for that style. We went down to the barber in
a body. He just took his scissors and in three snips left us
with a straight line back of our heads. The girls all kept
their hair so as to be able to pin it back after the demonstra-
tion and they let it grow back immediately, so you can understand
what a sacrifice it was to cut it in the first place.
The next morning we lined up for inspection. The head
nurse used to pass down the line and run her hands over our
bosoms to see that their were no pins in place of buttons on
our shirts. Then she went back of us to see if our heels were
all straight, not run down. Well, this time we all stood with
our backs to the door. When she came in there were thirty
girls with bobbed hair who wouldn't even look at her. She
caught on quickly enough. liargery got her job back. But the
head nurse found out who had put them up to it. She called
me in and said, !You're such a smart sleek, now /111 give you
a chance to see how wise you can be in the syphilis ward.
That's Where you'll be from now on.
could take most anything even then, but it was
horrible. There were eighty patients and forty were bedridden.
When you took off a dressing on the ulcers it was like removing
part of them, the flesh clung more to the lint than to them.
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