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Seeing small groups of nurses having tea in their Wards helps to foster a feeling of camaraderie not only between themselves, but between them and the patients. It demonstrates that they are not of different material to the patients, needing different treatment.1

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Hide, L. (2014). Ward Life. In: Gender and Class in English Asylums, 1890–1914. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137321435_7

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