Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Mrs. Scruggs appeared in front of the Board of Supervisors along with several other victims of the General Hospital 1934 polio epidemic in an effort to reinstate Dr. E.T. Remmen as their attending physician after his recent dismissal. Mr. Scruggs leans over his wife lying on a table. Her head rests on a folded jacket. There are several other unidentified people watching. Photograph appears with the article, "Supervisors See Stricken Nurse Swoon," Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec 1938: 1. Handwritten on negative: Mrs. Reba Scruggs Text from negative sleeve: 15259 - Polio Case Mrs. Reba Scruggs polio victim (on table) Keith Scruggs, husband (assisting) Jakobsen [stamped:] Dec (?) 1938 Text from newspaper caption: Mrs. Reba Scruggs, former student nurse at General Hospital, shown as husband, Keith Scruggs, went to her as she suffered convulsion at supervisors' meeting yesterday.
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image
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b&w nitrate negative
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uclamss_1429_11998 ark:/21198/zz002h8vwd
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Spouses--California--Los Angeles Poliomyelitis--California--Los Angeles Loss of consciousness Scruggs, Reba Catherine, 1914-2001 Scruggs, Eldridge Keith, 1908-1984
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