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Title: Assistant hospital supervisor with baby
Identifier: e_rl_13943iidf_0018
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans, Medical care
Dates: 1949
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: Assistant supervisor with a baby in the pediatric ward at the City-County Memorial hospital. This hospital carries the entire load of part-pay and charity cases for eleven counties; it also has the only isolation facilities and provides the only hospital space for polio patients in the area. Counties, other than Nueces, do not contribute financially to the hospital but it does receive help from the polio foundations. Corpus Christi, Texas. Please note--this is not intended to mean that this child has any contagious disease nor polio.

Title: Baby in pediatric ward
Identifier: e_rl_13943iidf_0014
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans, Medical care
Dates: 1949
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: Baby in the pediatric ward at the City-County Memorial Hospital. While segregation of Latins and Anglos is practiced in wards for adults, there were Anglo children in this ward. Corpus Christi, Texas.

Title: A child
Identifier: e_rl_13943iidf_0013
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans, Medical care
Dates: 1949
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: A child in the pediatrics ward at the City-County Memorial hospital. This is the only hospital in eleven counties which takes part-pay and charity patients; it also has the only isolation facilities for contagious diseases in eleven counties. Corpus Christi, Texas.

Title: A doctor's secretary and office assistant.
Identifier: e_rl_13943iidf_0010
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans, Medical care
Dates: 1949
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: A Latin-American doctor's secretary and office assistant. Typing and secretarial training is available in the unsegregated schools but job opportnities for Latin-Americans so trained are fairly limited. Corpus Christi, Texas.

Title: Estella Cortez gives her brother-in-law a hypodermic.
Identifier: e_rl_13918af_0009
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans, Tuberculosis, Medical care
Dates: 1949
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: Estella Cortez gives her brother-in-law a hypodermic.The family doctor, a Latin-American, taught her home nursing techniques so that she might care for this man and his wife, both of whom had tuberculosis. The wife died the week before; this man has been in bed at home for four months. The city health officer, Dr. Gordon Fisher, estimates that there are 8000 cases of tuberculosis in the county; there are only twenty beds in the county tuberculosis sanitarium which is designed to supplement the state sanitarium at which there is a long waiting list. Corpus Christi, Texas.

Title: A hospital ward
Identifier: e_rl_13943iir2_0035
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans, Medical care
Dates: 1949
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: A ward in the City-County Memorial hospital. The largest wards in the hospital have six beds and segregation of Latins and Anglos is practiced. However, both Latins and Anglos were seen in the same room in the children's wards. Corpus Christi, Texas.

Title: Members of the hospital staff
Identifier: e_rl_13943iir2_0037
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans, Medical care
Dates: 1949
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: Members of the City-County Memorial staff having lunch. There are Latin-Americans on both the service and the professional staff of the hospital. Corpus Christi, Texas.

Title: Members of the hospital staff
Identifier: e_rl_13943iir2_0038
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans, Medical care
Dates: 1949
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: Members of the City-County Memorial staff having lunch. There are Latin-Americans on both the service and the professional staff of the hospital. Corpus Christi, Texas.

Title: A mother and father
Identifier: e_rl_13943iidf_0015
Creator: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986
Topic: Latin Americans, Medical care
Dates: 1949
Resource: Russell Lee photograph collection
Description: A mother and father come to take their baby who has been sick home from the hospital. Neither the mother or the father spoke English. I would hesitate to use this picture to illustrate part-pay or charity patients. Corpus Christi, Texas.