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Trachoma was also found in the Ozark mountain area of Missouri and a trachoma hospital was established in Rolla, Missouri. Pictured here are the examining and waiting rooms of the Rolla hospital. Bacteriologist Ida Bengston was sent here about 1922 from the Hygienic Laboratory in Washington, D.C., and spent several years trying to find the cause of trachoma.
c. 1930
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