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Title: Syringes at County Hospital
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1955
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Miss Gladyce Toscano, who is responsible for the daily allotment of 6000 hypodermic needles and syringes in Los Angeles County General Hospital, is shown with a machine used in the process of cleaning the instruments. Thus, the hospital will be ready to use the Salk vaccine against polio.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00055423
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 2262-B.
CARL0000057444
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/19847
Subject: Toscano, Gladyce
Los Angeles County General Hospital
Hospitals--California--Los Angeles
Hypodermic needles
Hypodermic syringes
Sterilization equipment industry--California--Los Angeles
Nurses--California--Los Angeles
Poliomyelitis vaccine
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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