Science of Life Reel VII - How to Prevent Diseases

Science of Life Reel VII - How to Prevent Diseases Educational Film Shows Croton and Ashokon reservoirs in New York State (examples of pure water supply). Good shots reservoirs and dams. Diagram shows how easy it is for people living in the country to contaminate water through seepage into water table from manure, refuse, outhouse etc. 22:09:27 Diagram of Philadelphia subsurface strata charts shows how pure water system eliminated typhoid epidemics. 22:10:01 Title - Disease can be prevented by pasteurizing and protecting your city’s milk supply. - shows churns of milk emptied - milk being pasteurised. Milk being bottled on production line. 22:11:15 Title - Disease may be prevented by supporting quarantine regulations ... Shows Mother and son going up to schoolhouse door - notice re Scarlet Fever on door, Mother stops boy going in. 22:12:00 Evidences of successful vaccination are required by the United States from all foreigners who seek to enter this country. Shows - Immigrants on board ship, men stripped to waist have medical examination. Title - Disease may be prevented by systematic vaccination ... Shows Graph re smallpox vaccination in New York and deaths per 100,000. 22:13:44 Title re Antitoxin and fight against diptheria. Graph re diptheria in New York. Girl given Schick test for diptheria - girl injested in forearm - if red spot appears in two or three days it indicates susceptibility. Girl given antitoxin vaccination - row of schoolgirls have tests examined and injected where necessary. 22:15:48 Graphic re Deaths by influenza. Graph re what science hopes to do - reduce all transmissible diseases to 0 Medicine; Disease Prevention; 1920s; 1924;