[Reminiscences of TB sanitorium and preventorium]
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| Description | (Producer) This program is the narrated version of the 1926 film, T.B. Sanitorium and Preventorium. The narrator, Walter L. Zeigler, was a patient at the South Mountain Restoration Center in South Mountain, Pennsylvania, as a child in 1939 through 1940 and later worked there as an adult. He provides insight and stories of therapies, patients, and the nurses who worked there. His narration covers the entire film that shows, not only tuberculosis patients, but shows healthy children being institutionalized to prevent them from contracting tuberculosis or other diseases. The film opens with aerial shots in 1926 of the South Mountain Restoration Center including the tuberculosis hospital, children's hospital, patient huts, open air pavilions for patient sun bathing, staff golf course, and patient burial ground. It also shows close up exterior shots of huts, hospital, chapel, patient store (interior as well), nurses home, and the burning of the auditorium. The film documents therapies |
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| Source | collections.nlm.nih.gov |
| Author | Richards, Sarah L., Zeigler, Walter L., National Library of Medicine (U.S.) |
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Attribution: Richards, Sarah L., Zeigler, Walter L., National Library of Medicine (U.S.)