Public health

Mothers wait with their children outside a clinic in Tehran, Iran, which was established with the assistance of the Point Four Program. A doctor from the Ministry of Health visits the clinic twice a week and treats patients and helps train Iranian girls as health visitors. All women in the photo are unidentified.

Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson (rights) stands in front of the mobile x-ray unit presented to the U.S. Public Heath Service by the General Electric X-Ray Corp. Also pictured are (l-r): Dr. William D. Coolidge, x-ray consultant for the General Electric Co.; Postmaster General Robert E. Hannegan; and Dr. C.L. Williams, Sr., Assistant Surgeon General, U.S. Public Health Service.