"Patients lined up in "Stretcher Alley" on the basement level of the main building at Los Angeles County General Hospital on June 3, 1959. Incoming patients with every ailment imaginable are lined up along crowded hallways."
"There is overcrowding at Los Angeles County General Hospital. Here, nurse Anna McGee attends patients housed in a corridor because of over-crowding in the orthopedic section. Other patients wait in wheelchairs for the physical therapist's attention. Proposition A on the election ballot calls for a $15,466,000 bond issue to expand certain facilities."
"Exterior view of Los Angeles County General Hospital on July 16, 1960. It is one of the largest and provides front rank medical care, research, and medical training. Shown is the Acute Unit, where more than 100,000 Los Angeles County citizens are admitted annually as bed patients, and more than 750,000 clinic visits are recorded for outpatients during each year."