Public Health and USPHS by The National Library of Medicine

Through the use of a compact series of explanatory examples, this film points out the value of modern dental care with emphasis on the use of fluorides, focusing especially on school-age children and how dental care and education can be delivered in that environment The film describes how a rural community organizes a topical fluoride program and how an urban community institutes fluoridation of the public water supply. Learn more about this film and search its transcript at NLM Digital Collections: http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9605135.

The film is the story of the U.S. Public Health Service Indian School of Practical Nursing located in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It follows three American Indian women through their progress at the school. The film shows them arriving, settling in their rooms, getting their uniforms, and orientation. It discusses the classes they take: anatomy, medical vocabulary, how to take blood pressure, read a thermometer, and make beds. The students visit the Albuquerque Sanatorium, the Indian Hospital in Santa Fe, and Indian ceremonies in Gallup, New Mexico.

This film showcases the practices of an well-run kitchen led by a head cook the narrator refers to as a "master craftsman." Throughout the film, the cook attends to his daily duties, while the narrator comments on his competence at coordinating, scheduling, cooking, and cleaning, and his overall knowledge of food. The cook prepares food, cleans the kitchen, and expertly manages situations and problems such as spoiled food and unclean storage.

The purpose of this presentation is to discuss the importance of handwashing in patient care in preventing the transmission of pathogenic organisms from person to person and from place to place. This objective is achieved with the aid of a nurse who demonstrates proper techniques in handwashing under various conditions. In this presentation the principle of medical asepsis is described first and compared to surgical asepsis. This principle involves the mechanical removal of dirt and microorganisms with the use of running water, soaps and related compounds, and friction.

Manifestations of leprosy from beginning to end stages are shown in this silent film. Images are interspersed with title slides in German, informing the viewer that he/she is seeing cases of nerve damage, skin damage, loss of extremities, and other effects of the disease. People are shown receiving injections, washing, and exercising as part of their treatment. Produced by the Albert Victoria Hospital.

This video describes the symptoms of rabies in dogs and in humans. It relates how rabies can be transmitted from animals, especially dogs, to humans. The video shows how human rabies is treated. It also discusses how rabies can be prevented in a community by getting pets vaccinated, by picking up stray dogs, and through a state wildlife commission's control of the fox population.

This film shows inspectors and officials of the US Food and Drug Administration working to enforce food and drug regulations and thus keep the population safe. It follows the work of one agent who is assigned to investigate a scam "medicine" called Elixirex. A man with diabetes dies, having stopped his insulin and taken Elixirex instead. Around the same time, an FDA official scanning ads for questionable treatments sees an ad for Elixirex and assigns an agent to follow up on it.

This film shows the medical treatment, social, recreational, and occupational activities, and rehabilitation of female inhabitants of a venereal disease rapid treatment center. Shots include: venereal disease treatment center for women (former CCC camp), girls arriving at a small county jail, physical exam with vaginal smear, inoculation, interview to determine sexual contacts, intravenous drip treatment, occupational therapy, both physical and mental, recreational activities,and farewell and departure. Produced by the United States Public Health Service and US Department of Agriculture.

Telford Work made this film during an expedition to the Nuba Mountains in southern Sudan in search of evidence of yellow fever, and to evaluate the possible spread of yellow fever northward. The film shows laboratory equipment being loaded onto a Jeep along with Dr. Mansour, a Sudanese veterinarian and microbiologist in charge of the eradication of the tsetse fly, and Dr. Richard Moreland Taylor, Dr. Work's colleague on the expedition. The film documents the trip.

This film dramatizes the case history of a family man who takes pride in the hard physical labor that is part of his job as a surveyor. Having set aside his college studies to work fulltime and get married, he is unsure what to do when he is diagnosed with tuberculosis, must spend more than a year recovering, and is told by his doctor that he needs to work in a field that is less physically taxing. The doctor helps him see this as an opportunity to complete his college degree in architecture, and use it to launch a new career.