Ambulant exhibit in Department of Eure and Loire, Prevention of Tuberculosis, Infant Mortality, City of Dreux. Under the auspices of Educational Department of Commission for Prevention of Tuberculosis in France (Rockefeller Foundation) and Children's Bureau of American Red Cross. Outside the big exposition room and crowd waiting for the doors to open

The Exposition arrives at Dreux. A large sign on its cover reads "Traveling Exposition, to fight tuberculosis and lower the baby death-rate. American Red Cross Children's Bureau Campaign against tuberculosis"

The American Red Cross believes in preventive measures in the treatment of children. In the American Red Cross Children's dispensary, Rue de l Avre Paris delicate children are examined before being sent to the country where they will be placed under medical supervision

In Paris and throughout France work is being done by the American Red Cross to save child life at a time when France, bearing the brunt of a long war, needs every citizen. The welcome sight of the khaki of the Red Cross Doctor in the poor sections of French towns is a signal for the gathering of the children

Bligny Sanatorium on of the best tuberculosis hospitals in France. The American Red Cross has finished a building for 300 patients which stood 80% complete since the start of the war, where workmen were mobilized and money became scarce. The new building will be opened July the 15th

A ward in the Edward L. Trudeau Tuberculosis Sanitorium of the American Red Cross at Plessis-Piquet, just outside of Paris. This hospital, which specializes in cases of tuberculosis refugees in the Paris area, is under the direction of Dr. James L. Gamble, of Johns Hopkins Medical School, of Baltimore

Dr. Parker of the Red Cross Childrens' Bureau, examining a refugee child at Rue Boissy d'Anglas, Paris. Many of the children who come to this dispensary are undernourished and under-fed; menaced by the plague of tuberculosis. Red Cross nurse is alertly watching the doctor

Ambulant exhibit in Department of Eure and Loire, Prevention of Tuberculosis, Infant Mortality, City of Dreux. Under the auspices of Educational Department of Commission for Prevention of Tuberculosis in France (Rockefeller Foundation) and Children's Bureau of American Red Cross. Outside the big exposition room and crowd waiting for the doors to open

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Cliche envoye le 29 Juin 18/au Secretaire General.
Title and notes from Red Cross caption card.
Group title: Tuberculosis work.
On caption card: Reproduction, Plate to Secretary General. Print in album.
Date based on date range for negative series.
Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952.
General information about the American National Red Cross photograph collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.anrc
Temp note: Batch 31

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01/01/1914

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