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CPS Camp No. 61
CPS Camp No. 61, Durham North Carolina.
A degree in chemistry and work as an industrial chemist prepared Truman Kirkpatrick, Methodist, from Chicago, Ill., for his present work in Blood-Chemistry. He also helps run the electroencephalographer.
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CPS Camp No. 61
CPS Camp No. 61, Durham North Carolina.
Instrument, basin and water sterilizers are kept clean by C.P.S "attendants". Cleaning an instrument sterilizer is Harold Clark, Methodist, from Minneapolis, Minn.; and cleaning a suction jug is William Kriebel, Friend, from Philadelphia, Pa. (These two men are the editors of "Service", mimeographed publication of the Duke unit).
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CPS Camp No. 61
CPS Camp No. 61, Durham North Carolina.
William McLaughin, Presbyterian, from Alliance, Ohio, spend most of his time (a small part on Meyer Ward) operating the electroencephalograpgh machine. Tiny electrical currents in the brain are amplified by a battery of electrical amplifiers and recorded on a paper tape as wavering lines. With the help of such records, experts (doctors) diagnose abnormalities, such as brain tumors. Bill is shown attaching the "brain-wave machine" electrodes to a patient.
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CPS Camp No. 61
CPS Camp No. 61, Durham North Carolina.
A professional artist prior to coming to C.P.S., Robert Blake, a Methodist, from Upper Darby, Pa., spent only 3 months in the O.R. before his talent was utilized as a medical artist in the illustration dept. of Duke Hospital. He makes charts, diagrams, lantern slides and drawing for teaching purposes, and also for illustrating medical books and research publications; takes and shows movies, etc. On the wall to the right of Bob's head are water-colors of his wife (a nurse) and of Duke U. Chapel, done in spare-time. The series of pictures from which this picture came are Bob's work. Ditto covers and drawings in "service", the unit publication.
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CPS Camp No. 61
CPS Camp No. 61, Durham North Carolina.
Part of the job of the C.P.C. attendant in the orthopedics service in the operating rooms is "making plaster" - the rolls of plaster-of-paris and crinoline that are used in making plaster casts, both in the O.R. and in the orthopedic clinic - some has also been supplied at times to small hospitals and clinics in N. Carolina. Shown at work is Harold Kleiner, Methodist, from Portland, Oregon. Until he transferred in Sept. 1943, to Alexian Bros. Hospital, Chicago, this job belonged to Lowell Herberger, Mennonite, from Nappanee, Indiana.
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General Hospital
Summary: 

CPS Unit No. 61, a General Hospital unit located at Duke University Hospital in Durham, North Carolina operated by the Methodist Commission on World Peace, opened in December 1942 and closed in October 1946. Most of the men worked as orderlies and attendants.

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  • Unit 1
    Durham , North Carolina
    December 1942
    October 1946