Medicine in the tropics
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| Description | The medical problems and medical care of the workers on the Firestone Rubber Company rubber plantations in Liberia are discussed over appropriate footage. The most common diseases in this region are schistosomiasis, the malarias, yaws, goitre, 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. The people are immunized against smallpox. In heavily populated areas, water is impounded, filtered, and chlorinated. Trained medical orderlies work in the plantation clinics, giving first aid, caring for minor ailments, making mass survey of diseases such as sleeping sickness. Acutely ill patients are taken to the plantation hospital, to be cared for by an American doctor and trained hospital and laboratory staff. Shots include: |
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| Source | collections.nlm.nih.gov |
| Author | Franz, K. H. (Karl Herman), 1916-, Lewis Sound Films., Firestone Plantations Company., Firestone Tire and Rubber Company., Association Films, inc. |
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Attribution: Franz, K. H. (Karl Herman), 1916-, Lewis Sound Films., Firestone Plantations Company., Firestone Tire and Rubber Company., Association Films, inc.