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Go to HomepageReel Number: 220854-05
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1931
Country: SOUTHERN AFRICA
Location:
TC Begins: 17:36:37
TC Ends: 17:47:20
Duration: 00:10:43
Medical Missions In Africa re Sleeping sickness - CU mosquito & Tsetse fly. Medicine man. Sacrifice or ritual involving burning leaves. Women and children ill with sleeping sickness tottering and shaking. Man with enormous growths / ulcers on skin. Village scene w/ women pounding manioc. African doctor examines villagers at dispensary. Sending patient to Protestant mission hospital in African ambulance (litter pulled by oxen). Sick people on stretchers carried by relatives. African doctors supervised by colonial look through microscopes. Giving treatment for leprosy - injection. Vaccination. Patients in long line at outdoor clinic. Operating room with surgeons. Outdoor hospital beds. African nurse training. Bathing and spoon feeding babies. African nurses in uniform wave goodbye to others sent to work in rural district. Fat Black baby on scales. Colonisation / colonial