Patients in for observation ... play dominoes
- Collection:
- Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)
- Language(s):
- English French
- Format:
- Still image
- Subject(s):
- Cancer Care Facilities Clothing Patients USSR World Health Organization
- Abstract:
- Interior view: a group of men are sitting at a table playing dominoes; they are dressed in hospital garments. Verso: WHO/11031. USSR-Cancer. The USSR against cancer. In a special issue World Health sets out to show how the world's second leading cause of deathis being fought. In its fight against cancer, the USSR concenntrates on mass examination, treatment and research. All men over 35 and all women over 30 have to be examined at least once a year. Twenty million people in the USSR were examined in 1963 and the mass campaign, begun in 1948, is being intensified in 1964. Patients in for observation at the Institute of Clinical ans Experimental Oncolody play dominos. The Institute is situated some 15km. from Moscow.
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- Copyright Holder:
- World Health Organization; Source: Record; Research date: 20151009
- Extent:
- 1 photoprint.
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101436903 (See catalog record)
- NLM Image ID:
- A013800
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101436903