The nurses were putting in twelve-hour shifts now, day and night.
Twenty-year-old Emily Burdon has been training as a nurse in London, learning on the job as she t. 1918.
And more patients were coming in every hour, though the hospital beds were already full...
They were short-staffed after a softly spoken Irish nurse, who\'d only been with them for four days, had died from the deadly flu and two more had fallen ill.
Emily felt broken inside, dried out, not even capable of tears.
The nurses were putting in twelve-hour shifts now, day and night