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British doctors Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson left everything when the First World War broke out, including their active fight for the right to vote for women, to move to France where they created two small military hospitals. Despite the fact that women in their country were unable to care for men, their medical and organizational capabilities proved so impressive that, in 1915, the War Department asked them to return to London and start up a new military hospital in a Huge old abandoned hospice on Endell Street in Covent Garden. They achieved the impossible. They created and ran a 573-bed hospital staffed exclusively by women: doctors, surgeons and nurses. Over the next four years, they received 26,000 wounded and developed entirely new techniques to deal with the horrific mortar and gas wounds suffered by soldiers. And when the war was ending and the Spanish flu epidemic appeared, the hospital closed its doors and Flora, Louisa and all the women on their team were once again marginalized when it came to exercising their profession: they were told again that that it was no place for women.