Emergency Hospital Exhibit [1955]

Title:: Emergency Hospital Exhibit [1955]
Description:: Simulated Casualties
Creator:: Federal Civil Defense Administration. Region I. 1951-1958
Name on Item:: Federal Civil Defense Photograph
Date:: [ca. 1955]
Format:: Photographs
Genre:: Photographic prints
Location:: National Archives at Boston
Box ID: 04 (shelf locator)
Collection (local):: Record Group 304: Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization
Series:: Civil Defense Photographs, 1951-1961
Subjects:: Hospitals
Civil defense
Places:: Massachusetts > Hampden (county) > West Springfield
Extent:: 1 photograph : print ; 8.5 x 11 in.
Permalink:: https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/h128rr032
Terms of Use:: No Copyright - United States
Unrestricted
This work is in the public domain under a Creative Commons No Rights Reserved License (CC0).

Notes:: Title from accompanying material.
Text from item: Packed away without fanfare in strategically-placed warehouses around the nation is the Federal Civil Defense Administration's mercy stockpile, which some day may spell life or death for millions of people. It consists of 200 of FCDA's portable, self-contained emergency hospitals in the federal stockpile, plus 76 others owned by the States. FCDA has ordered an additional 731 hospitals, and the States six. Set up in outlying schools, churches and other buildings, the hospitals would provide working facilities for doctors and nurses evacuated from the 1,800 regular hospitals in critical target areas. The $22,500 emergency hospital, complete with X-ray and operating room equipment, portable generator, 200 cots and supplies, can be loaded in one large truck and taken where needed. It can be set up ready for use in five hours. This photo show simulated casualties receiving medical care in FCDA emergency hospital set up in public building.
Notes (date):: Date from item or accompanying material.
Accession #:: 824935
Identifier:: 0685

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