Cows imported by Friends Relief Mission (Quakers - Religious Society of Friends) as per their mission to restock farms in Europe in the period after World War I. Cows on the land. Farmer repays mission with milk. People keeping milk in containers. Milk transported by horse drawn cart. A town center where milk is distributed. Children queue for milk. A child walks by drinking milk. View of the Spinnerin am Kreuz hospital for Tubercular children in Vienna Austria. Hospital beds brought into open air for children with Tuberculosis. Nurse gives children in beds milk to drink. Mission also helps the working classes. People queue for welfare activities.
Communal kitchen in Vienna, Austria, in the years just after the end of World War 1, during mass food shortages and high inflation. People seated at table eating food. Women taking needlework to institute. It is their means of supplementing income after selling all their possessions. Often a year's pension is insufficient for a week's food for the 600 war victims; many of them gentlefolk of the old aristocracy receive weekly allotments of food. People queue at table to receive food from soup kitchen operated by the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). On screen slate appeals for help.
Opening scene shows patients being cared for by nurses from an order of nuns (likely nuns of the Dominican order). Patients lying in beds in a modern hospital ward. Views of the attending nurses and several of the patients in their beds. Next scene shows Vienna Orthopedic Hospital in the Margareten (5th District of Vienna), established by medical Professor Hans Spitzy, devoted to treatment of crippled children and those suffering from tuberculosis affecting their bones. Boys who are patients in the hospital. Young boy with a tubercular elbow and tuberculosis of skin on the right breast. Two boys with tuberculosis of the bone and skin.
Shows a 16-year-old boy in hospital in Vienna, Austria. He suffers from bone tuberculosis, due to starvation. 16-year-old patient massages his thin chest and stomach in hospital bed. A 10-year-old boy suffers from the same disease sits on bed with his back on the camera.
Shows a boy suffering from tuberculosis of the skin on the right thigh in a hospital in Vienna, Austria.
Shows a half grown boy with tuberculosis of the bone in Vienna, Austria. He also suffers from tuberculosis of skin. This is due to starvation. Another boy suffering from same disease on the bed near to him. Patients in outdoor doing bed rest.
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