Papers of Martha Eimen, 1945-[1995] (bulk 1945-1948).

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Papers of Martha Eimen, 1945-[1995] (bulk 1945-1948).

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The collection consists primarily of two photograph albums of Eimen's nursing service with the United Nations. One album contains photographs of people and work animals of Palestine, the architecture of Bethlehem and Jerusalem and the nurses' living quarters at Nuselrat Camp in Palestine. The second album depicts a group tour of Africa, workers at a United Nations camp in the desert, a Greek hospital camp, nurses at the American Hospital in Beirut, Lebanon, tours of Damascus and Cairo, as well as photographs taken on tours of Italy and France. The collection also includes an autobiographical sketch by the author.

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University of Iowa Libraries

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United States. Public Health Service

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In April 1955 the Department of HEW licensed 6 companies to distribute a newly-developed polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. The vaccine's effectiveness had been endorsed by NIH and the Surgeon General. Shortly after the vaccine was distributed, however, Cutter laboratory's allotment was found to be tainted and a cause of 72 new cases of polio. Responding to the crisis, the U.S. Public Health Service directed CDC epidemiologist Alexander Lang...

Eimen, Martha, 1912-

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After graduation from Wellman (Iowa) High School, Martha Eimen attended Mercy School of Nursing in Iowa City, Iowa, and Goshen College, Indiana, graduating from the latter school in 1944 with a degree in nursing. She then served with the United States Public Health Service and the United Nations from 1944 to 1948, chiefly in Italy and the Middle East. A resident thereafter of Iowa City, Iowa, Eimen received a master's degree in public health nursing in 1958 from the University of Iowa in 1958 an...

Nuselrat Camp (Palestine)

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