The Army Hospital Album 29

And the (almost) never ending saga of the army hospital album continues.  The top two photos are labeled.  "Lnt. Carson"  I assume that Lnt. stands for Lieutenant.  The second, "Capt. Dr. Hill."  Perhaps someone out there can answer this question.  Are military hospitals segregated by rank.  Since a lieutenant is a patient, does that mean our photographer has to be an officer?

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The Army Hospital Album 14

My eyes hurt!  I was out riding my bicycle, got an eyeful of dust, and it took a couple of days for my eyes to flush out all that grit.  It's a good thing I wasn't in the army hospital.  All that second hand smoke would have made things worse.  Just think, way back in the 1950s, doctors and nurses would offer a smoke to a patient to make them feel better.  How things change.

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The Army Hospital Album 13

Finally, an actual medical procedure.  In picture number four, some blood is being taken.  But what about the first picture?  Am I wrong?  Is that guy making a rug?  And, you'll have to take my word for it.  I needed my best magnifying glass to make it out.  The guy in the second photo is reading a story called The Coffee Cup Showdown.

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The Army Hospital Album 11

I'll be finishing out the year with  more images from The Army Hospital Collection.  We've got  more dates with this lot.  The scrabble players and the two nurses, "MAY 55"  I keep wondering if being in a military hospital is an open ended thing.  If a soldier's enlistment is over, but he's still considered too ill for service, what happens?  Continued enlistment until recovery? Release to a VA facility?  Just plain release, left to their own devices?  And of course, what would have happened in 1955, compared to today?

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The Army Hospital Album 7

It looks like the guys had a bit of leave coming.  They're still in hospital, though, as will be seen in upcoming posts.  I still think they are patients in a psychiatric ward.  When these were taken it was called shell shock.  Today it's PSTD, post traumatic stress disorder.

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The Army Hospital Album 6

So, who are the doctors and who are the patients?  I think the doctors wear shoes and the patients wear slippers.

 On collections this big, I like to break things up a bit, so for awhile, I'll be moving on to other photos.  Click on army hospital collection in the labels section at the bottom of the post to see the whole lot.  I'll pick this lot up again in the next three or four weeks.

The Army Hospital Album 5

I do like some of the photos in this post, especially the first and third in the column.

So who were the soldiers in Ward D-10?  Just run of the mill guys, with run of the mill medical problems?  Or are these photos a record of men with special problems?  In looking through the album, I don't see anyone with wounds.  It makes me wonder if the guys in Ward D-10 were dealing with emotional problems.  But then again, maybe they all had something simple, like the flu.

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The Army Hospital Album 4

Go back to the first post from this collection to see how the album was put together.  It's made up of a number of cellophane sleeves which hold photos.  Almost all of the photos have been cut to fit, with two pictures per sleeve.  The third photo is one of a handful of images not cut down to a smaller size, and the format that the album was made for.  It's a 3 1/2x5,  basic 35mm.

Sadly the military doesn't build for the ages.  It's clear that the building in that photo wasn't made to last.  It's also so generic that it's impossible to hunt down a locale by comparing it with photos from known bases.  Are the guys in overalls doctors or patients?

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The Army Hospital Album 3

It looks like they're having a party at the army hospital.  Though not, I suspect, in Hawaii.  Click on army hospital collection in the labels section at the bottom of the post to bring up the lot.

The Army Hospital Album 2

I had to get through a couple of more pictures to get to the first of the hospital shots.  This will be it for awhile.  Click on army hospital collection in labels to bring up the other posts.  Actually, at this point all you've got to do is navigate back one, but at some time in the future clicking will be necessary.

The Surgeon's Album Page, The Verso

Almost got myself in a bit of trouble when I titled the last post The Front Side.  Logically this one should have been The Back Side, but not really a good way to go.  So, Verso it is.