Former item number 3096.

Note on verso: "81. 'BANDIT NURSES'. At the Reds' base hospital, near Yu Wong Pao, Ninghsia Province, there are some 200 youthful nurses, half boys, organized and trained from the natives of the Red districts by the Young Communist League. Despite the previously backward economy of the districts now held by the Reds in China's Northwest, public health and hospitalisation have made rapid progress. 'Medical schools' have been established in Shensi, Kansu and Ninghsia, where nurses such as these are given six months intensive training in hygiene, sanitation, first-aid and epidemic-control, by the Red Army's competent staff of foreign-trained doctors. The soviets make some of their own medicines from locally produced ingredients, but mostly they depend on supplies captured from Kuomintang armies or imported, through their own efficient system of 'blockade-runners', from places like Shanghai and Peiping. Photo by Edgar Snow."