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CARRYING ON IN THE "OLD RED BRICK" 107.—Aerial view showing the location of the Institute building (upper left corner) in relation to the Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

todial and "housekeeping" services, supply, finance, records administration, postal service, civilian employees, commissary facilities, repairs and utilities, military training, and others of the thousand and one complications bound to arise in fitting the new member into the pattern of work and life at the Army Medical Center.

On 13 February 1955, the move from the old building to the new was started. Already, 5,000 items of new equipment had been purchased and placed in the new building. The move from the old building, carried out by General Service Administration forces, according to plans laid down by the Institute staff, was accomplished in a month, during which time 10,200 tagged items were moved to new quarters—40 vanloads, mostly specimens sealed in plastic bags going to outside storage at Franconia, Va., and 150 vanloads going to the long sought and eagerly awaited new building on the Walter Reed reservation (fig. 107).