The medical problems and medical care of the workers on the Firestone Rubber Company plantations in Liberia are presented and discussed, with accompanying footage. The most common diseases in the region are schistosomiasis, malaria, yaws, goiter, intestinal worms, the dysenteries, the filariases, traumatic injuries, and pulmonary, bone, and skin diseases. Smallpox is the most common of the infectious diseases. Spraying, ditching, and cutting back vegetation are done in an attempt to limit the habitat of the pathogens and vectors. Latrines are inspected.

Facts about the discovery of unsuspected cases of tuberculosis. Shows how community health agencies, including the public health nurse, the social worker, and the home demonstration agent, assist in the rehabilitation of patients and aid the families of tubercular patients to solve their problems. Learn more about this film and search its transcript at NLM Digital Collections: http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/8800148A.

This film outlines the control of household insects in military establishments. Flies, roaches, and bedbugs can be controlled by good sanitation and the use of DDT. The equipment and techniques to be used are shown. Identification of presence of pests is discussed. Treatment of barracks, kitchens, and mess halls is shown. NLM Unique ID: 9432127 Learn more about the National Library of Medicine's historical audiovisuals program at: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/collections/films

This program reviews with the aid of drawings the nurse's role in the prevention of disease. Emphasis is placed on factors which influence the transmission of disease. Techniques which can be used for preventing the transmission of disease are reviewed. Factors which affect the natural history of disease are also discussed. These factors include the characteristics of the organisms which cause disease and host resistance. Environmental factors such as climate which have an effect on disease and the organism's ability to resist it are identified.

This film featuring actress June Lockhart traces the story of Larry, a news reporter who is diagnosed with tuberculosis. He is ashamed, and unwilling to talk about it or follow his doctor’s orders to go to a sanatorium. The film follows Larry as he tells his supportive fiancee, hears the stories of others, and begins to accept his diagnosis. Larry is admitted to a a pleasant-looking sanatorium with caring staff, but still has trouble adjusting. He is non-communicative and has nightmares.

Young man of "Everytown" has an oral hemorrhage which subsequent examination and tests show was caused by tuberculosis. He goes to sanitarium for treatment and extensive bed rest. Epidemiological investigation reveals source of infection was lip contact with his fiancée. The importance of occupational therapy and aptitude tests is demonstrated during the patient's recovery and rehabilitation. Scenes include: sputum and blood samples, enlarged tubercle bacilli, tuberculin test, X-ray, pneumothorax surgery, and patient drafting in occupational therapy.

This film demonstrates techniques of space spraying for insect control over large and small areas, both indoors and out, and shows various types of power-spraying equipment. Shots include: airplane spraying, mosquito larviciding on pond, fogging in neighborhood at night, etc. Learn more about this film and search its transcript at NLM Digital Collections: http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/8800044A.

An Epidemiological Expedition into the Interior of Africa In the early 1950s Dr. Telford H. Work and Dr. Richard Moreland Taylor traveled to the Sudan to study an outbreak of yellow fever. Flying to Khartoum, they took their equipment by train to El Obeid, and by jeep to the Nuba Mountains (spanning the southern part of the present-day post-partition Sudan and the northern part of South Sudan). Accompanied by Dr.

The advantages of immunization against disease, rather than its treatment with antibiotics, are presented. The diseases against which immunizations have been developed are listed. Reported cases of the following diseases for the years 1950 to 1965 are shown on charts and United States maps: diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, smallpox, tuberculosis, typhoid fever, scarlet fever and other streptococcal diseases, poliomyelitis, measles, hepatitis, mumps, brucellosis, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, tularemia, rabies in man, cholera, plague, typhus, and yellow fever.

In this film, a host and two doctors examine histoplasmosis, also called the Mississippi Valley disease. The host first shows a little girl who has been hospitalized for months and has an enlarged spleen and liver due to histoplasmosis, and explains that she is in the company of 30 million others suffering from the disease. He then introduces a doctor who is a leading authority on histoplasmosis, who explains that around 80 percent of all people living in the Mississippi Valley area have had the disease at some point in their lives.

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This film tells the story of planning activities by the Tennessee Valley Authority for the control of malaria in the Kentucky Reservoir area. It shows surveying, clearing, and burning operations for malaria control in the Kentucky Reservoir area.

Modernizing the Tropics, Making a New Nation, with Public Health Filariasis, a parasitic disease, is caused by microscopic (roundworms. Spread from person to person by mosquito bite, the worms can cause elephantiasis and other serious conditions. Filariasis in British Guiana was part of a broad campaign to prevent and treat the disease. It was released in 1963, a time when the United States and Soviet Union were competing for the allegiance of "the Third World." British Guiana was heading toward independence, and the U.S.

This film promotes the concept of multiple screening. The narrator first explains that Americans in the 1800s had many health concerns, but modern medicine has alleviated many problems and life expectancy has risen. Still, blood pressure, obesity, heart and kidney problems, tuberculosis, and syphilis are persistent problems. Early detection can fix them. The narrator introduces the concept of multiple screening, in which blood and urine samples, x-rays, and other testing methods can be used to screen for several different diseases rather than just one.

Jack Burns is diagnosed with tuberculosis and must leave his family to spend months in the hospital. Jack worries how his wife will manage financially, and how the children will handle the reality that their father is ill and not present for a long period. He also wonders how his transition back to regular life will play out. The film shows that Jack's time convalescing was well worth it. His health is restored, and he learns new skills so that he can take a less physically demanding job when he returns to work. His wife handles the family budget well, and the family keeps its home.