HAND DITCHING
Creating drainage ditches for malaria control near Charleston, South Carolina.
Color
TRT :05:00
Presented by the Federal Security Agency and the U. S. Public Health Service. Produced by the Communicable Disease Center with the cooperation of the State Board of Health of South Carolina.
At the beginning, the audio commentary explains how swamps have been associated with increased malaria risk and describes actions of swamp inspectors and larvacide sprayers. The audio commentary gives a detailed explanation of how malaria control engineers planned for swamp drainage and how labor crews dug hand ditches to discharge swamp waters. This film includes scenes of swamps in South Carolina, water flow in finished ditches, and drained out swamps with many felled trees. The film also shows wading inspectors dipping for larvae with pots on sticks and collecting larvae into test tubes, crews spraying larvacide with gas-masks, public health officials pointing over a swamp, engineers surveying in a swamp, and labor crews digging and tapping ponds.
KEY WORDS: Malaria control, swamp, Anopheles quadrimaculatus, larvaciding, engineering, ditch, drainage, discharge.
U. S. National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division, Images and Archives Section at the National Institutes of Health, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894
www.collections.nlm.nih.gov
U
1949
2011.241.mp4
IMPORTED MALARIA STUDIES
Imported Malaria Studies. A joint activity of the National Institute of Health and the Office of Malaria Control in War Areas in the rearing and handling Anopheles mosquitoes .
Color
TRT 16:00
This film provides instruction for rearing and handling anopheles mosquitoes in an insectary while a woman simultaneously demonstrates all of the actions steps described. Mosquitos in stock cages feed on a rabbit put into the cage so that they feed and can lay eggs. The woman rinses the pan of eggs into a larval pan and provides food of dog biscuit crumbs and yeast when 75% of the eggs are hatched. The film shows a detailed close view of the mosquito life cycle and then shows how adults are lightly blown into the sorting cage. The woman is then seen selecting out adult females from the sorting cage with an aspirator and placing them in small glass jars topped with pieces of cellucotton filled with syrup and water. The narrator believes insectary rearing of mosquitoes for malaria transmission studies illustrates ways in which scientists depend on one another.
KEY WORDS: Malariologist, entomologist, Anopheles mosquito breeding, laboratory, eggs, larvae, pupae, larval pan
U. S. National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division, Images and Archives Section at the National Institutes of Health, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894
www.collections.nlm.nih.gov
1945
2011.237.mp4
IT'S UP TO YOU
IT'S UP TO YOU: Dengue-Yellow Fever Control This film depicts a representative community campaign to control Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in order to prevent dengue and yellow fever. Shots include: breeding pond for Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, other breeding places (water-holding containers), Aedes aegypti on a man's hand, Aedes aegypti larvae in water, emptying water from containers, fish in aquarium eating larvae, and publicity media encouraging mosquito eradication and control.
Color
TRT 17:08
Produced by U.S. Public Health Service. Office of Malaria Control In War Areas. Atlanta, Ga
U. S. National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division, Images and Archives Section at the National Institutes of Health, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894
www.collections.nlm.nih.gov
1943
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/8800171A
hmdvid-8800171AITSUPTOYOU
KEEP 'EM OUT
This film shows rats' habitats and their destructive and disease-spreading activities, in addition to rat elimination and control measures to be performed by the community.
Black and white
TRT: 10:00
Produced by Stark Films, in cooperation with the U.S. Public Health Service
U.S. National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division, Images and Archives Section at the National Institutes of Health, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894 www.collections.nlm.nih.gov
1942
2011.288.mp4
MALARIA CONTROL
Malaria Control in the Kentucky Reservoir
Chapter II: Reservoir Preparations.
A documentary film photographed during the preparation of the Reservoir.
Color
TRT 32:00
Presented by the Tennessee Valley Authority and the U. S. Public Health Service.
U. S. National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division, Images and Archives Section at the National Institutes of Health, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894
www.collections.nlm.nih.gov
1944
2011.242.mp4
MALARIA CONTROL IN WAR AREAS
MCWA 1942-1946 Predecessor to CDC.
The people and work accomplished during 1942-1946, by the Office of Malaria Control in War Areas (MCWA) and the U. S. Public Health Service.
The David J. Sencer CDC Museum at the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30333
www.cdc.gov/museum
1982
2011.59.mp4
MICROFILARIAE
Microfilariae of Wuchereria bancrofti
Spread through a mosquito vector
Silent film
TRT: 04:00
Produced by the Communicable Disease Center. Federal Security Agency, U. S. Public Health Service.
U.S. National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division, Images and Archives Section at the National Institutes of Health, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894. www.collections.nlm.nih.gov
October 1947
2011.287.mp4
MICROSCOPIAL DIAGNOSIS OF HUMAN MALARIA
Microscopical Diagnosis of Human Malaria
Training Film
Malaria parasite Identification
Color
TRT 24:00
Produced by the Office of Malaria Control in War Areas, Atlanta, Georgia
U. S. National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division, Images and Archives Section at the National Institutes of Health, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894
www.collections.nlm.nih.gov
1946
2011.243.mp4
MOSQUITO PROOFING
Training Film
Malaria prevention techniques
TRT 10:00
Much of the material used in this film has been supplied through the courtesy of the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Produced by the Office of Malaria Control in War Areas, Atlanta, Georgia.
An audio commentary explains that mosquito proofing is closing all the cracks, holes, and openings in a building so that the malaria-carrying quadrimaculatus mosquito is kept out. The audio commentary provides a detailed explanation of how this is done. This film shows men unloading screens, nailing screens on doors and windows, boarding up fireplaces, and constructing screens in shops. The film also uses sketches to explain instructions. A sketch of a room is used to illustrate problems and animations of fireplace closing and crack filling overlaid. The film also uses animated arrows to point out specifics in a diagram of the wood plan for a screen door and illustrations of 16 and 4 mesh per inch screen. The film also includes views of housing, swamps, mosquito illustrations, a man on a porch smoking with mother and child walking by, children in a house, a baby, and a sick child.
KEY WORDS: Office of Malaria Control in War Areas (MCWA), malaria, mosquitoes, Cyprus lumber, S4S: surfaced four sides, galvanized metal, screen doors, screen windows.
U. S. National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division, Images and Archives Section at the National Institutes of Health, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894
www.collections.nlm.nih.gov
1946
2011.240.mp4