Trainee nurse gives patient blanket bath, Royal Free Hospital, 1952.

ENGLAND - MAY 06: Nursing was one of the few career paths open to young women during the 1950s and training often involved long hours strict discipline and early curfews. Founded in 1828 the Royal Free Hospital welcomed the poor and the sick and until the advent of the National Health it survived entirely on voluntary subscriptions. Severe bomb damage in 1944 lead to a space shortage and this teaching hospital soon moved from the Gray?s Inn Road where the patient is being treated to Hampstead in North London. Photograph by Walter Nurnberg, who transformed industrial photography after WWII by using film studio lighting techniques. (Photo by Walter Nurnberg/SSPL/Getty Images)