This is Pops, a 75-year-old derelict, who suffers from wine sores. Shortly after this picture was taken, his other leg also became infected. Through a policeman, Pops was sent to the Bridewell hospital for 55 days.
Happiness, exhaustion, plus a wistful desire to hold her baby, mark the features of polio victim Virginia Dare as she sees her baby girl four hours after its birth. Mrs. Dare had been confined to the iron lung four months before the baby was born.