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ID#:

15397

Caption:

This image was captured inside New York City’s public health hospital, Bellevue, America’s “oldest continuously operating hospital” since 1736. In this particular view, a number of children were playing inside what was the facility’s Rubella Project pre-school, an educational laboratory for children with multiple handicaps, including deafness, blindness, mental retardation, in varying degrees. Many attendees had all three conditions, and more.” These 4-year-olds had manifestations of congenital rubella, including hearing, visual, neurologic, and cardiac impairments.

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Content Provider(s):

CDC/ Dr. Andre J. Lebrun

Creation Date:

2010

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CDC Organization