Bangor Bathers
Two young nurses helped bring a smile to the Queen City's patients during the 1920s.
By Joshua F. Moore
While physicians and surgeons perform the miracles of modern medicine, it is often nurses who are charged with raising the spirits of the infirm on a daily basis. Nurses Carolyn Grant, at left, and Blanche Arnold were apparently willing to go to any length for a chuckle, even if it meant climbing into a bathtub at Bangor's Eastern Maine General Hospital back in 1927. While Arnold had been a registered nurse for a decade when this photograph was taken (most likely by a hospital employee), Grant had passed her examinations just the previous year and was already on her way to becoming a nurse supervisor of the thirty-five-year-old hospital's orthopedic department.
