A Filipino boy sits in a makeshift bath tub in the Philippines in 1944

Gift of John M. Lynes Sr., from the Collection of The National WWII Museum
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A Filipino boy sits in a makeshift bath tub. "This little fellow looking with wonder at the camera, has just finished getting bathed by his mother and squats in patient manner while the photographer snaps his picture. The distended belly is caused by the presence of the disease called schistosomiasis, caused by blood flukes which abound in all fresh water streams and the swamps in the Philippines." Philippines 1944

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Items from the service of Mary Lynes, Women's Army Corps (WAC), who served in the Pacific.
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Pilipinas
Latitude: 
13.000
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122.000
Thesaurus for Graphic Materials: 
Indigenous peoples--children--Philippines
Bathing--Philippines