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Public Health Clinic, Town of Lake

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Description: Two men are checking children with stethoscopes, another man is looking into a girl's mouth, and two women are writing in notepads. Other women and many ch...
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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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Visiting Nurse Service Staff Nurses

Date: 04 11 1944
Description: L. Lee, 1822 Helena Street, Norma Epermann, 217 North Orchard Street, and Mary Sherburne, 222 South Carroll Street, preparing supplies. Public health visit...
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Tuberculosis Patient

Date: 11 15 1949
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...
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Polio Vaccine in Transport

Date: 1955
Description: Polio vaccine being unloaded (?) from a Northwest airplane.
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Mobile X-Ray Unit

Date: 05 02 1949
Description: Miss Jeanne Gibbons (left), a technician with the Madison Board of Health, explaining the workings of the mobile X-ray unit to members of the Lakewood Scho...
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Portable X-Ray Machine

Date: 03 17 1949
Description: Trailer with portable X-Ray machine for taking chest x-rays to detect tuberculosis.
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Madison General Hospital Maternity Ward

Date: 06 25 1954
Description: Nurse Meulbrock working in the hospital's new delivery room.
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Examination of a Baby

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Description: Parents watch as their baby is given a physical examination by a woman at the Health Center.
Poster

All-Campus Blood Drive Poster

Date: 03 1971
Description: Poster announcing a blood drive at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, sponsored by the Red Cross. Features a "bloodmobile" as an attraction.
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Portable X-Ray Machine

Date: 03 17 1949
Description: Interior of trailer with portable X-ray machine. Jean Gibbons, X-ray technician, is shown with unidentified woman getting an X-ray.
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Volunteers at Red Cross Regional Blood Center

Date: 06 14 1951
Description: Volunteer nurses Mrs. J.W. Brown and Mrs. R.H. Olsen work at the year-old Red Cross Regional Blood Center in Madison.
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Red Cross Blood Drive

Date: 12 09 1951
Description: City Attorney Harold E. Hanson has his blood pressure taken by Mary Clancy, Red Cross blood center staff nurse.
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Dane County Health Council Association

Date: 09 22 1952
Description: Student Gloria Niebuhr has her eyes tested by Dane County Health Council Association volunteer Mrs. Robert Drunasky. Looking on is student Eugene Bosben.
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Dane County Health Council Association

Date: 09 22 1952
Description: First grade student Frank Eschler has his hearing tested by Sun Prairie Health Council chairman Mrs. Marshall Thorpe. Looking on is student Kathleen Wacket...
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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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Presentation of a Fluoroscope to City of Madison

Date: 11 14 1944
Description: The presentation of a fluoroscope purchased by the Madison Tuberculosis Association to the City of Madison Health Department. Shown left to right are Mayor...
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Government Workers Blood Drive

Date: 01 05 1961
Description: Red Cross Nurse Janis Clothier is shown at right holding a container. With her are four building inspectors during a Red Cross blood drive for government w...
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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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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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