| THE WAR ON PNEUMONIA (LNER) Anti-pneumonia serum is distributed in Pennsylvania, United States of America. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 6336 |
| Catalog #: | 53787 | |
| Clip Number: | 53787-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 38/2 | |
| Timecode: | 01:23:32 - 01:24:17 | |
| Location: | Pennsylvania, United States of America. | |
| Year Shot: | 1938 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | HEALTH AND MEDICINE: Treatment LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, Pennsylvania | |
| Description: | "THE WAR ON PNEUMONIA". Pennsylvania, United States of America. M/S of Supply Chief (of medicine?) Samuel Purveys and Health Secretary Dr Edith Dexter sitting at a desk and looking at a letter - commentator explains it is a request for free serum. They go into a room marked 'Anti-Pneumo Serum' and Purveys gives Dexter a box of the pneumonia antidote. It is passed to a physician who injects it into a patient - an old man in a hospital bed. | |
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