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Listen: The Latin ProgramGovernor Carlton and doctors visiting with a family during the "Health Circus" demonstration on sanitation.
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Series 904, Midwife program files, 1924-1975 ; Box 4, FF25
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The Board initiated a midwife licensing program in 1931 to reduce infant mortality and to promote maternal and child health.
L-R: partially visible Dr. H. Mason Smith, Dr. Henry Hanson (state health officer) and Governor Carlton.
Accompanying note: "During this demonstration a white and a col. home was screened, a pump and a sant. toilet were installed, free by the S.B.H. [sbh0139]".
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