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D74024-15
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- 1953-03 (Creation)
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Seventh-day Adventist Disaster Emergency Unit. In this photograph from March of 1953, nurse Roberta Sharley gently wraps the arm of her young "patient," Joyce Shubert, as she lies on a cot located at the Tacoma Seventh-day Adventist Junior Academy, designated as a civil defense emergency hospital. They took part in a mock atomic air raid practice to simulate injuries that might occur and how to provide appropriate care. Members of the Tacoma Central and South Side Seventh-day Adventist churches had joined in a project of demonstrating first aid and also filling and distributing emergency disaster kits. They may have been the first church group in the country to provide a disaster kit for every member family. (TNT 3-22-1953, A-15)
Nurses; Sick persons; Seventh-day Adventist Church (Tacoma); Sharley, Roberta; Shubert, Joyce; Civil defense--Tacoma--1950-1960;