On the firing line: a travel-tour to scenes of the fight against tuberculosis
- Contributor(s):
- National Tuberculosis Association. Courier Productions (New York, N.Y.)
- Publication:
- [New York, NY] : The Association, [1939]
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Moving image
- Subject(s):
- Tuberculosis, Pulmonary -- epidemiology Tuberculosis, Pulmonary -- prevention & control African Americans United States -- epidemiology
- Abstract:
- This film examines the incidence of tuberculosis in various sections of the United States along with efforts to bring about its eradication or control. Scenes include: the Washington, D.C. Census Bureau interior, with statistics on tuberculosis deaths; the New York headquarters of the National Tuberculosis Association; educational and promotional media; and the earliest sanitoria in the United States, including interior shots of beds, kitchen facilities, and other rooms. Pneumothorax treatment is shown, as is a community clinic that diagnoses people, a public health nurse visiting homes checking for tuberculosis, a doctor-and-nurse team working in a rural area with trailer and X-ray equipment, slum areas with heavy exposure to tuberculosis, and comparative mortality rates between African-Americans and whites, and professional and unskilled industrial workers.
- Copyright:
- The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
- Extent:
- 020 min.
- Color:
- Black and white
- Sound:
- Sound
- Provenance:
- Received: Apr. 25, 1955 as a donation from the National Tuberculosis Association.
- Technique:
- Live action
- NLM Unique ID:
- 8700213A (See catalog record)
- OCLC no.:
- 31668844
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/8700213A