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Sabin Oral Vaccine

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Description: A nurse gives children the sabin oral vaccine.
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Feeding Children Cod Liver Oil

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Description: A woman giving Highlander nursery school children cod liver oil.
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Health Class

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Description: A nurse points to charts while teaching maternal and infant health to a small class of mothers who have children on their laps.
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Physical Examination of Young Girl

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Description: A nurse or doctor at the Health Center gives a girl a physical examination as the mother, who is holding a baby, looks on.
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Children's Ward

Date: 1920
Description: Light from a large window brightens the children's ward at Madison General Hospital. A nurse in cap and uniform stands in the left foreground. A young gi...
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Tiny Baby Kristin Nadings Beats Odds to Celebrate 1st Birthday

Date: 12 15 1965
Description: Kristin Nadings, daughter of Air Force Capt. and Mrs. Elvin Nadings, Sun Prairie, born prematurely at one pound, six and one half ounces on December 15, 19...
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Fostering Homeless Infants and Children

Date: 05 02 1957
Description: Foster mothers take homeless infants and children into their homes. Members of the Madison advisory board of the Children's Service Society, a Red Feather ...
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Typical Day of a Student Nurse

Date: 01 03 1958
Description: Student nurse, Mary Jo Oxem, with seven of her classmates at the bedside of a young child. They are listening to their nursing instructor, Mrs. James Sapie...

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