Dr. Mabel Elliott with an emaciated young patient. Many children arrived at the orphanages suffering from severe malnutrition.

Near East Foundation

Rockefeller Archive Center. Near East Foundation records.

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A related printed version carries the caption "DOCTOR ELLIOTT AND EMACIATED PATIENT" and the accompanying text: "The medical work at first was such work as may be done on a battlefield. Every orphanage was a hospital, every child a patient. (See Page 177.)"

Jennifer Abdella and Molly Sullivan, A Lasting Impact: The Near East Foundation Celebrates a Century of Service (2015), p. 18, lower-left photograph. Caption entry: "Dr. Mabel Elliott with a seriously malnourished patient, c. 1920."