in 1929, the Department of Health started vaccinating Honolulu school children against diphtheria. At the time, the bacterial disease was a major health concern in the Islands. In 1936, a […]
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City Hospital baby clinic, Washington state, June 30, 1931
Ellis Island Contagious Disease Hospital
Saint Francis Hospital and Sanatorium
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Doctor Margaret Wragg Sloss (1901-1979) was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and moved to Ames with her family. Thomas Sloss was the Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds for the Iowa […]
Baby Transfiguration – the electrical installation of a brand in a mother and her baby to prevent mistaken babies. New York, 1931
Peaches Browning, the 16 year old wife of the New York millionaire arrived in Chicago today on the Twentieth Century Limited for a two week dancing engagement in a cafe, […]
patient and doctor in City Hospital Tuberculosis Division, Seattle, April 26, 1927
FINALLY, saw my first Harold Lloyd movie last night (thanks to the dear ole FF) – 1922’s Dr Jack. don’t ask me what took so look, but now I want […]