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Photograph caption dated October 21, 1957 reads, "Construction worker Arthur Gil, 35, receives emergency treatment from Dr. Richard Diroll at Saint Joseph Hospital. He was crushed in sewer excavation cave-in." See image 00155265 for additional photo in this series.
St. Joseph Hospital (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.) Wounds and injuries--Treatment Wounds and injuries Physicians Excavation Sinkholes Disaster victims Disasters Rescues Men Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.) Portrait photographs Group portraits
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