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| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | The sprinkling filters under construction at the sewage disposal plant. |
| Date: | 11 15 1949 |
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| 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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| Description: | Wilbur J. Cohen, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, discussing a poster board about comprehensive health care with an unidentified man. |
| Date: | 01 29 1957 |
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| Description: | Dr. Hertha Tarrasch, center, psychiatrist, spoke to the foster parents, telling them about emotional problems of children. Dr. Tarrasch, who is consulting ... |
| Date: | 11 15 1949 |
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| Description: | Doris Trameri, 568 Park Lane, re-enacts receiving a routine chest x-ray at the free chest clinic operated by the Madison Department of Public Health. Dr. J... |
| Date: | 05 19 1947 |
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| Description: | Three doctors examining a patient for the Cancer Society. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Polio vaccine being unloaded (?) from a Northwest airplane. |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | A group of children gathers around an International truck modified for use by a public health organization while a woman in a nurse's outfit stands inside.... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Poster promoting breast feeding for infant health. The poster shows a bar graph comparing monthly infant deaths for breast fed and bottle fed babies. There... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A group of children walking up a grassy hill together, with text that reads: "The health of the child is the power of the nation," and "Children's Year." C... |
| Date: | 04 05 1954 |
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| Description: | Miss Evelyn C. Nelson (left), supervisor of nurses for the Department of Public Health, and Mrs. Frank J. (Lois) Woerdehoff, city Round-Up chairman, make p... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Dr. Hunter of the Wisconsin Board of Health bathes a baby in a tub of water. |
| Date: | 05 18 1944 |
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| Description: | Dr. F.F. Bowman, Madison health officer for the past sixteen years. |
| Date: | 1994 |
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| Description: | Senator Herbert H. Kohl, Russ Feingold, and Hillary Clinton. Sign on podium says "Health Care That's Always There, The National Health Care Campaign". |
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| Description: | Group of small children gathered around a table outdoors near a building on which a toddler is being weighed using a baby scale. |
| Date: | 1980 |
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| Description: | On hot summer days, automobile emissions cause an increase in ground level ozone that can be harmful to health. In Wisconsin, the ozone problem is most acu... |
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| Description: | Women, who are accompanied by their children, register at the Health Center. On the walls are displayed posters on health and food. |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | This map shows asylums, cemeteries, hospitals, parks, streets, and wards. Relief is shown by contours. Also included are manuscript annotations in pencil. ... |
| Date: | 04 16 1957 |
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| Description: | Staged scenario of a lonely and isolated elderly woman sitting in a rocking chair by a fireplace and spinning wheel. "Aunt Jennie" is portrayed by Margueri... |
| Date: | 08 16 1957 |
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| Description: | Stoughton physician Dr. Rodney K. Peterson checking the ear of Barbara Notstad during a pre-school medical examination while her mother is looking on. Barb... |
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