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The forgotten frontier / [presented by] the Frontier Nursing Services, Inc. ; by Marvin Breckinridge.
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Patterson, Mary Marvin Breckinridge, 1905-2002.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Child health services.
- Maternal health services.
- Nursing services.
- Rural health.
- Kentucky.
- Genre:
- Streaming video.
- Public relations works.
- Video recordings.
- Motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 streaming video)
- Other Title:
- Selections from the National Film Registry.
- Place of Publication:
- [Hayden, KY] : The Nursing Services, [1931]
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- This is an unique and historically valuable film depicting the important medical aid that the Frontier Nursing Service provided in the Appalachian region of Kentucky. The Service provided child hygiene, midwifery, sick nursing, medical care, dentistry, public health, and emergency surgery for poor, mountain people. Film shows patients' and nurses' cabins, children, town, and gives flavor of their lives, language, and problems. Scenes include: nurses crossing river at night in ice and snow on horseback to deliver babies, nurses inoculating townsfolk at one-room school, nurses and men making a stretcher in forest and walking 7 hours carrying a man with gunshot wound to hospital, steam trains, etc. Exterior of Wendover headquarters, Frontier Nursing Service Hospital, etc. Paper file contains film production details.
- Credits:
- Mary Breckinridge.
- Notes:
- Reviewed in: Congressional record, E2548, Apr. 2, 1968. Transcribed and captioned; transcript available.
- The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain.
- OCLC:
- 31646102
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