TUBERCULOSIS, ITS DIAGNOSIS, TREATMENT AND CONTROL

Produced in collaboration with Bureau of pneumonia control, Pennsylvania State department of health. "Demonstrates the nature, transmission, diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis. First, an explanation opening scenes explain that sunlight and fresh air are enemies of the germ, and the offensive weapons are constantly exposed to possible infection." "Mary Smith, a slim, attractive high school girl, is introduced. She has been taking tuberculin tests with the other students, and her test shows that she has sustained no tuberculosis infection. But soon afterward, Mary's tubercular aunt comes to live in the Smith home. Several possible means of transmitting her infection are shown. The following sequence of the film reveals the development of the tuberculosis infection inside Mary's lungs. But this time infection is walled off by defensive cells and confined to inactivity in a small cavity."