Schistosomiasis.

Date:
1953
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Schistosomiasis. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

A film made by a behind the scenes army unit involved in sanitation, rubbish and disease control especially with relation to preventing mosquito bourne infections such as malaria.The film appears incomplete and some scenes may be out of sequence although it does have some interesting sequences. It starts with Tai Po Orphanage and sewage disposal at Car Nicobar (an Indian island). There are helpful intertitles throughout ('mosquitoes can breed in the most obscure streams') with illustrative footage. Interestingly the film points not only to poor practice in the local population but also there is a scene of somewhat tidier rubbish of a large pile of boxes discarded by Americans. Diseases mentioned in the film include ankylostomiasis (hookworm) and the dangers presented by scorpions in the desert.

Publication/Creation

1953.

Physical description

1 encoded moving image (11:32 mins.) : silent, colour

Duration

00:11:32

Copyright note

Unknown.

Terms of use

Unrestricted.
CC-BY-NC
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.

Language note

In English.

Creator/production credits

No credits are on the film.

Notes

There were loose lengths when this film was inspected and it wasn't clear whether editing was unfinished, the joins had become loose or there were rejected sections. An endeavour was made to join the film in a haphazard fashion; subsequently when the film was digitised some of these edits (where the image was joined upside down or reversed) have been corrected albeit one which remains at the beginning where there is a sign transposed.

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