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Bathing Baby in Tub

Date: 1937
Description: Dr. Hunter of the Wisconsin Board of Health bathes a baby in a tub of water.
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Tuberculosis Patient

Date: 11 15 1949
Description: Doris (Mrs. Edward) Trameri being x-rayed by Dr. James M. Wilkie for tuberculosis at the free chest clinic operated by the Madison Department of Public Hea...
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Mrs. Lawrence J. McCormick, Christmas Seal Chairman

Date: 11 08 1955
Description: Mrs. Lawrence J. McCormick, former patient at Lake View Sanatorium, looking at her chest x-ray with Dr. John K. Shumate. Mrs. McCormick was chairman of the...
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Dr. Harper Tribute

Date: 01 31 1948
Description: Shown at the Dr. Cornelius A. Harper recognition event, left to right, Dr. Carl N. Neupert, state health officer, and Mrs. Melba Neupert; and Dr. and Mrs. ...
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National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis

Date: 02 19 1948
Description: Dr. Clair Turner, Assistant to the president of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, is shown at the left as he conferred in Madison with a gro...
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Polio Short Course

Date: 06 29 1948
Description: Wisconsin physicians seated in a classroom while attending the second annual polio short course. The course is co-sponsored by the Wisconsin Medical School...
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"Well Baby" Clinic

Date: 06 01 1950
Description: Dr. Ruth Foster, left, is shown examaning baby Janet Lee Sommerville while assisted by Nurse H. Anita Anderson as the mother, Mrs. Robert Somerville, is lo...
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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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Physical Examination

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Description: A nurse or doctor gives an infant a physical examination at the Health Center as the baby's mother looks on.
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William Frost Testimonial Dinner

Date: 02 29 1952
Description: Group portrait of seven people at the head table during a testimonial dinner honoring Dr. William D. Frost, retired president of Morningside Tuberculosis S...
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Pre-School Physical Exam

Date: 04 13 1953
Description: Cynthia Strassman, who will enter kindergarten next fall, is examined by pediatrician Dr. Richard B. Anderson as part of the Summer Round-Up program. The p...
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New U.W. Faculty

Date: 09 28 1954
Description: Portrait of Dr. Vernam Terrell Davis, assistant director of the division of mental hygiene at the Diognostic Center and associate professor of clinical psy...
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Unloading Polio Vaccine

Date: 1955
Description: A doctor unloading a box filled with a supply of the polio vaccine. The box in the foreground is labeled: "Polio Vaccine Rush" and the doctor is kneeling n...
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Doctor Reading Results of Electrocardiograph

Date: 1974
Description: Dr. Virginia Barker, Nursing School Dean at Alfred University, is reading the results of an electrocardiograph in a mobile health unit. The mobile health ...
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Dr. William Stovall and Dr. M. Starr Nichols Honored

Date: 05 10 1958
Description: Dr. William Stovall, right, head of the Wisconsin State Laboratory and his assistant, second from the left, Dr. M. Starr Nichols, were honored for their lo...
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Sertoma Gives to Polio Fund

Date: 10 01 1959
Description: The Madison Sertoma Club presented a check for $100 to the National Foundation to aid polio patients. Dr. Robert Harmon, right, Dane County chapter emergen...
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Dane County Immunization Clinic

Date: 02 03 1961
Description: Dr. Joseph F. Behrend of Sun Prairie (left) and Carol Dorn, a public health nurse, look on as Mrs. R.J. McCarthy (right) administers a vaccine to Darrel Ca...
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Disease Immunization, 5th and Hadley

Date: 02 15 1935
Description: A man and a woman administer immunization shots to a line of children.
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Dr. Edwin Jorris

Date: 06 26 1961
Description: Dr. Edwin Jorris, Assistant State Health Officer at the State Board of Health, was honored for 25 years of service at a luncheon at the Simon House. He wa...
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Dane County Health Survey Meeting

Date: 03 1955
Description: Leaders in the upcoming Dane County health survey register for the planning meeting. Shown are Dr. Alan Filek, state board of health; Mrs. Edwin Blaney, pr...

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