Chronicles a young obstetrician's training in slum areas of Chicago, Illinois, where he is part of a Chicago area maternity center. Doctor O'Donnell along with nurse walks in slum area of Chicago. Slum area buildings during the Great Depression. Woman collects necessary things from garbage and drags it in a small cart on road. A woman with a small child in a wagon rummages for usable refuse. Men, women, and children scavenging for food and household items on the streets of Chicago and outside factories and plants. Obstetrics Doctor O'Donnell converses with a man.
Lakefront view of Chicago skyline. Paved roads and garden in the foreground. Crowds of pedestrians on Chicago street. Cattle being herded in Chicago stock yards. Visitor on bridge looks at Tribune Tower. View from car driving along city street. Cars parked "bumper to bumper" on street, under sign reading: 'No parking at any time'. Store front signs read: 'International Barber College' and 'Premier Laundry'. Nighttime street scenes with neon signs for Jim Saine's Restaurant and for Tradewinds Restaurant and Lounge. Visitor dancing with a woman in a dance club or dance hall. A man tries to "cut in." Traffic on South Michigan Avenue with many vintage 1940s and 1950s cars and automobiles. Visitor interrupts two men talking on the sidewalk, and offends them so they walk away. The Visitor rows a boat, alone, in a lake.
Chronicles a young doctor's training in obstetrics at maternity center in city of Chicago, Illinois. During the Great Depression in Chicago, a cat scavenges on garbage lying outside building. Dr O'Donnell assists in preparation for and delivery of a baby in Chicago slum area home. Doctor cleans woman's head with water. Another doctor writes in a note book. He lifts bed cover from baby's head and checks woman's temperature. The baby cot is placed next to mother on bed. Man arrives with two children in the room. Doctor O'Donnell along with nurse walks on street. View of poor, indigent children of a family eating food around a table. A mother bathing a child in a wash basin. Child removes clothes and climbs into bed. Views of sleeping young children, one with a fly and other insects disturbing his sleep. Man loading a truck with boxes in a nearby alley.
Film about the state of Illinois in the United States. People enter a building for the Illinois State Fair in Springfield, Illinois. People in the fair. Amusement rides, swings and people in a bus. Farmers walk with cattle. Children participate in 4-H club livestock competitions. A farmer near his blue ribbon winning cow. A girl near her sheep who won a blue ribbon. Children on a miniature train. Harness racing at a horse racing track in Illinois. Sports cars driven during an automobile race on a dirt track. Interior view of upper deck in double decker passenger train car with passengers enjoying the view through windows and a conductor punching tickets; Abraham Lincoln birth home cabin; View of statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Illinois State Capitol building. The SS City of Grand Rapids ferry ship of the Cleveland & Buffalo Steamship Company passing by on Lake Michigan with Wrigley Building in background.
After the riots in Chicago, Illinois. Chicago Temple building, cars, and buses on a street with tall buildings in the background. The Unity Building (127 N Dearborn St, Chicago, IL 60602, United States) and the Chicago City Hall (121 N La Salle St # 107, Chicago, IL 60602, United States) in Chicago. American and Chicago flag at half-mast after the riots in Chicago. An official building with an American flag on it at half-mast. Events were after the death of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
Film 'The Fight for Life' dramatizes experience of a physician in obstetric practice at a Chicago hospital. View of engraved stone reading: City Hospital, 1932, over archway, at entrance to a Chicago hospital. Medical staff walk in hallway. A nurse enters maternity center where doctors stand beside a woman in labor on a table.The principal doctor monitors the fetus heartbeat. The mother becomes stressed and the anesthesiolgist helps her. Physician places newborn infant on cart and nurse rolls it away. View of baby. Nurse and doctors attending the mother express alarm over her blood pressure.They administer oxygen and several doses of medicine by hypodermic. But the patient dies. One of the attending physicians (Dr. O'Donnell) is clearly moved by the event, and seems deep in thought as he leaves the hospital, not even noticing the receptionist who bids him good evening as he passes her.
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