Sanitation in Mining Villages
Intertitles throughout Black-faced Coal Miners at work. Int. miners ‘Wash and Change House’ provided by mining companies in several states: includes shower, lockers and sinks.
11:01:42 Dirty miner returns home, past several dirty barefoot kids; washes in tub outdoors; wife scrubs his back. Excrement from outdoors toilet shoveled into horse-drawn cart. XCU fly poking its long mouth at a stick. VS flies on rotting fish and in sugar bowl; on baby’s dummy; baby with dummy in mouth.
11:04:36 Spraying swamp for Malaria prevention. CUs mosquito larvae. Woman pumps water from well. Milking cows; barn and dairy farm.
11:07:10 Parents pose w/ baby in garden. Child’s medical examination: in dentist chair. Good general views of rows of new miners’ houses and surrounding area. Women gardening.
Filth. Poverty. Disease. Hygiene. Working Classes. Manual Labor; 1910s;
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Sanitation in Mining Villages Intertitles throughout Black-faced Coal Miners at work. Int. miners ‘Wash and Change House’ provided by mining companies in several states: includes shower, lockers and sinks. 11:01:42 Dirty miner returns home, past several dirty barefoot kids; washes in tub outdoors; wife scrubs his back. Excrement from outdoors toilet shoveled into horse-drawn cart. XCU fly poking its long mouth at a stick. VS flies on rotting fish and in sugar bowl; on baby’s dummy; baby with dummy in mouth. 11:04:36 Spraying swamp for Malaria prevention. CUs mosquito larvae. Woman pumps water from well. Milking cows; barn and dairy farm. 11:07:10 Parents pose w/ baby in garden. Child’s medical examination: in dentist chair. Good general views of rows of new miners’ houses and surrounding area. Women gardening. Filth. Poverty. Disease. Hygiene. Working Classes. Manual Labor; 1910s;