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Meeting "Happy Tooth"

Date: 04 24 1989
Description: Children meet "Happy Tooth", a robot sponsored by Colgate toothpaste on a 30-state tour to promote dental hygiene to young school children.
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Polio Shot Time

Date: 11 15 1955
Description: All seven siblings in the Marnell family lining up for their polio inoculations.
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Beating the Bug

Date: 12 13 1968
Description: A firefighter gets a flu shot made available to city workers in the lobby of the municipal building to avoid contracting the Hong Kong flu.
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Health for Victory Stage Set

Date: 09 17 1942
Description: Health for Victory stage, set up with posters, stove and refrigerator for Oscar Mayer at the Eastwood Theater. On the stage is a woman pointing to a poster...
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Children at Morningside Sanitorium

Date: 06 01 1935
Description: Group portrait of children with tuberculosis and their attendants, and with a man and woman in Salvation Army uniforms, sitting in a classroom at the Morni...
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Kiddie Camp Children

Date: 04 27 1934
Description: Three members of the Emerson Fresh Air school and the Longfellow Nutrition room eating at a table to demonstrate that the Kiddie Camp's provision of good n...
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Vocational Students Mail Christmas Seals

Date: 11 29 1933
Description: A group of Madison vocational school students preparing Christmas Seals for distribution by the Madison Anti-Tuberculosis Association.
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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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Patients at Wisconsin State Tuberculosis Sanitorium

Date: 1908
Description: View of a group of men dressed in winter clothes, under blankets, sitting in an outdoor porch at the Wisconsin State Tuberculosis Sanitorium in Wales. Capt...
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Sun Parlor for Tuberculosis Patients

Date: 1912
Description: Colorized view of a sun parlor at the pavilion for tuberculosis cases at the Milwaukee Hospital for the Insane.
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Tuberculosis Ward at River Pines Sanatorium

Date: 1908
Description: Snow-filled porch at the River Pines Tuberculosis Sanitorium.
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Public Health Nursing Week

Date: 04 16 1947
Description: Public Health Nursing Week. Helen Guelzow of the Visiting Nurse Service making her daily physical check-up of two University of Wisconsin nursery school ch...
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Public Health Nursing Week

Date: 04 16 1947
Description: Public Health Nursing Week. School nurse, Dorothy Dorman, inspecting the throats of four pupils at Sherman School. From left are: Larry Call, Norbert Eugen...
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Public Health Nursing Week

Date: 04 16 1947
Description: Public Health Nursing Week. Miss Agnes Moroney of the third district unit of Wisconsin State Organization of Public Health Nursing and supervising nurse at...
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Christmas Seal Campaign

Date: 11 18 1947
Description: Mrs. James (Jane) Wilkie with her children, Sara, James, and William, shown wrapping presents using tuberculosis seals.
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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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PTA Health Chairwomen

Date: 02 09 1948
Description: PTA health chairwomen hearing about plans for the mobile X-ray program from Beulah Dreyfus, a tuberculosis (TB) nurse with the City of Madison Health Depar...
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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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Washington School Hearing Clinic

Date: 07 15 1948
Description: Participants in a large-scale hearing clinic held at Washington School in Madison and sponsored by the University of Wisconsin departments of speech and ed...
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Washington School Hearing Clinic

Date: 07 15 1948
Description: Participants in a large-scale hearing clinic held at Washington School in Madison and sponsored by the University of Wisconsin departments of speech and ed...

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