U.S. Public Health Service uses trailer clinic in war against syphilis. Washington, D.C. Aug. 23. Ready for action the new trailer-laboratory just completed for the United States Public Healthy Service arrived in the Capital today for inspection by government officials. Dr. L.E. Burney and Nurse Fran Miller, (shown in the photo) members of the Public Health Service staff, will travel with the trailer which was built for use in a syphilis project in Georgia. It is equipped with an operating table for examination of patients, a sink, sterilizer, and other equipment needed to administer to sufferers of the dread disease. 8/23/37
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Date
1937
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Harris & Ewing, photographer
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States, 38.90719, -77.03687
Source
Library of Congress
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