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LIFE IN THE NEW BUILDING
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Figure 120.—Award-winning exhibits of the Medical Illustration Service. A. Full-size exhibit which is shipped to the place of showing.

out a quarter of a million pieces of its work in a year and has, upon occasion, turned out more than 350,000 items (fig. 123). This output includes photo-micrography and color reproduction, as well as what might be called normal black-and-white representations of pathology subjects.[1]

Television

Another interesting installation in the Institute of Pathology building is the main studio and control center for the television facilities of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. These facilities include also studios in Walter Reed General Hospital, and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, and are hooked up in the hospital network of the Washington area. Programs of scientific interest, broadcast by closed-circuit transmission, are seen and heard at the National Institutes of Health, the National Naval Medical Center, the hospital at Andrews Air Force Base, the James C. Kimbrough Hospital at Fort Meade, Md., and the Wallace DeWitt Hospital at Fort Belvoir, Va., as well as on some 170 receiving sets in the Walter Reed area.

The broadcasting range is further extended by the ability to transmit programs on commercial facilities for closed-circuit showing at a distance from

  1. Annual Report, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, 1961, pp. 215-225.