Pictures of my office/sick-bay
Philip K Swartz - 1960-61 - South Pole Station - Antarcticans Database Project more

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Storage room in the background. Until this was built, all the supplies had been stored in the tunnel area and not inventoried. There were enough death certificates to issue one to everyone coming to the station for the next 20 years. There were over 100 doses of morphine. The only antibiotic available was oral penicillin G that had outdated 5 years before the station had even been built!

Pictures from Philip K Swartz, overwinter, South Pole, 60-61