Title supplied by cataloger. The Orthopedic Hospital, founded by Charles LeRoy Lowman in 1911, began as a clinic for children with crippling disorders and was originally located on Figueroa Street. In 1922, the first hospital was completed (partially pictured here), and was located on Ord Street; it was replaced 37 years later, in 1959, with a second, larger hospital that was located at 2400 S. Flower Street. When Dr. Lowman established this hospital, he was the only orthopedic specialist (also sp. "orthopaedic") between San Francisco to New Orleans, and due to the fact that the field was so new, he invented many treatments himself. One of these 'inventions' was to turn a fishpond on the Orthopedic Hospital grounds into a therapy pool for children with polio - two years before Franklin D. Roosevelt, a polio sufferer, discovered the 88-degree waters at Warm Springs, Georgia. Since then, the orthopaedic program has dramatically grown to the point where the Los Angeles Orthopaedic Hospital (as it is now named) sees more children with potentially crippling disorders than any other facility in the United States, and a third, yet larger hospital, is currently under construction. View 2: A nurse helps a child with her water exercises in the wading pool at the Ord St. Orthopedic Hospital. The nurse, wearing chest waders and a white short-sleeved blouse, gently holds the child's head and torso, helping to keep her relaxed and afloat as she does her therapy.
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1 photographic print :b&w ;11 x 14 cm. on sheet 21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
Orthopaedic Hospital Manipulation (Therapeutics)--California--Los Angeles Orthopedic hospitals--California--Los Angeles Health facilities--California--Los Angeles Orthopedics--California--Los Angeles Hospitals--California--Los Angeles Children--California--Los Angeles Nurses--California--Los Angeles Lowman, Charles Leroy,1879-
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