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D97498-1
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- 1956-03-22 (Creation)
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Publicity photograph for the Tuberculosis League of Pierce County. Mayor Harold Tollefson points out to Hal D. Murtland (right) the pins on the map marking reported and treated TB cases. A poster for the mobile X Ray unit lies on the desk. Also viewing the map are County Commissioner Harry Sprinkler (seated) and Dr. Charles McGill, president of the TB Assoc. of Pierce County. Murtland, a Tacoma attorney, had just been appointed chairman of the the mass chest xray survey to be conducted in Tacoma and Pierce County the next winter. The first mass xray since 1948 would begin in November and utilize four mobile xray units. Murtland planned for 140,000 Pierce County adults to be xrayed in the fight to eradicate TB. (TNT 3/25/1956, pg. B-4)
Tuberculosis League of Pierce County (Tacoma); Tuberculosis--Tacoma--1950-1960; Community service--Tacoma--1950-1960; Tollefson, Harold M., 1908-1985; Murtland, Hal; Sprinkler, Harry; McGill, Charles;