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“A review of the archival record shows that there was a small hospital at the Coco Solo submarine base in 1936 and also reveals the name of the U.S. Navy physician who signed McCain’s birth certificate.”
The small hospital that is talked about here is that every town site, civilian and military, had dispensaries opened on weekdays, where one could go for initial diagnosis and cure if it did not seem to be too serious. Each was staffed by a couple of wonderful doctors and a few equally wonderful nurses.
Coco Solo Dispensary, which they did have (confirmed it this a.m.) may have been more of a sophisticated dispensary, although the article didn’t say, may have had a delivery section.
I plan to do some deep research tomorrow. It may take a couple of weeks to get some answers. But I am on it.
Until now, I have not seen an official certified copy of his Canal Zone birth certificate. This is very impotent.
Something which might interest you as does me every time I think about it: The Atlantic side and Pacific side were quite isolate from one another until after the middle of WWII. The only thing connecting both sides of the isthmus was our railroad. The Transisthmian Highway connecting Panama City and Colón City was not built until some time about after the middle of WWII.
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