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THIS DAY IN VIRGINIA HISTORY

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March 31, 1945

First Civilian Employees, Newport News, Virginia, U.S. Army Signal Corps, Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation, March 31, 1945, Computer file: 1995, Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Civilians Received Typhoid Vaccinations

This photograph shows the surgeon of the Industrial Dispensary administering a typhoid vaccination to Madeline Norris, of Kilmarnock, Virginia, and nurse Marjorie D. Wood, of Newport News, administering the shot to Margaret Louise Compher, of Waterford, Virginia. These women were the first civilian employees at Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation to receive typhoid vaccines in a 1945 campaign to immunize all civilians at the port. Typhoid is a bacterial infection passed through contaminated food or drink.