Pediatric ward. [alternate view]
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Author/Creator
Tuley , George F .
Title
Pediatric ward . [alternate view]
Subject
Texas Disasters Floods Hospitals, Pediatric Diarrhea, Infantile Hospitals, Packaged Voluntary Workers Hospital Volunteers Emergency Medical Services Hurricane Beulah, 1967
City/Town
Rio Grande City
County
Starr
Description
Photograph showing volunteer medical staff treating infants with infantile diarrhea and acute dehydration in the pediatric ward of a packaged disaster hospital following Hurricane Beulah . A mild epidemic of infantile diarrhea had spread among evacuees in emergency shelters causing infants to become severely dehydrated . IV stands were built by Rio Grande City High School shop students , under the supervision of Mr . Humberto Cavazos . At one time , Dr . Kay Rogers , a volunteer pediatrician from San Antonio , Texas had up to twenty-five infants receiving intravenous fluids in the pediatric ward . Only one child died during the entire disaster operation . An alternate view . Part of the Dr . Mario E . Ramirez Hurricane Beulah Photograph Collection .
Digital Publisher
UT Health Science Center Libraries
Original Format
Photograph
Digital Format
JP2
Date Original
1967 ;
Date Digital
2010 ;
Project
“Bringing a South Texas Story from Paper to Pixel: Digital Documentation of the Hurricane Beulah Crisis in the Rio Grande Valley, 1967.” This project has been funded in whole or in part with Federal funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, under Contract No. N01-LM-6-3505 with the Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library.
Primary Collection
History of Medicine
Digitization Specifications
8-bit grayscale; 600 ppi; Epson Expression 10000XL flatbed scanner; Adobe Photoshop Elements 6.0
Access Rights and Restrictions
This work is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License,
as described at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
Permanence Level
Permanent: Unchanging Content
Collection Identifier
Beulah
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