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Madison Visiting Nurse Service
April 11, 1949
Visiting nurse Esther Sorensen checking on bedridden Richard Pedracine.
Madison Visiting Nurse Service
March 11, 1949
Visiting nurse Esther Sorensen caring for elderly resident Clotilda Contell, who she visits regularly.
Madison Visiting Nurse Service
April 11, 1949
Visiting nurse Esther Sorensen changes a wound dressing for patient Connie Taylor who is blind and recovering from a fall.
Madison Visiting Nurse Service
April 11, 1949
Visiting nurse Esther Sorensen standing at her car ready to start her daily activities.
Madison Visiting Nurse Service
April 11, 1949
Visiting nurse Esther Sorensen giving some advice about pre-natal problems to Mrs. Arnold Davis, a wife of a GI student at the University of Wisconsin.
Visiting Nurse Service
April 19, 1948
Visiting nurse Esther Sorensen of the Madison Visiting Nurse Service is advising Mrs. Chester B. Van Roo, the former Mary Lou Bell, on the care of her children, Chester, Jr., 18 months, and Mary El...
