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Public Health Nursing in Manitoba

Accession number: 
1921.0015

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Production Years: 
1921

Languages:

  • English
Film Properties: 
  • Silent
  • Black and White
Length (minutes): 
8

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Holding Institutions: 

University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collection, Winnipeg, Manitoba - Margaret Elder Hart fonds (PC 209, A.06-22), Box 1, Item 3.
"A film produced by Pathescope of Canada, Ltd. that demonstrates the many roles served by nurses of the Provincial Board of Health in Manitoba. It depicts a public heath nurse visiting the Charleswood Municipal Office, lecturing students in a schoolhouse on proper hygiene and administering checkups to the students, visiting a mother and demonstrating proper childcare techniques with her baby, meeting with the Women's Institute, participating in a Child Health Conference at the summer fair, demonstrating childcare techniques to girls as part of the Little Mothers League, conducting a nutrition class, and visiting a rural home in conjunction with the Manitoba Red Cross Society."

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