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.
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 and tenement 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 among trash. 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.
Scenes from a medical mission Appalachian health clinic near Campbell County, Tennessee. Sign "Changing Wash Day on the Farm." Below it is a display of a woman washing clothes by hand in a wooden tub. Transition to a woman operating an early washing machine. Cut to a crowd of mostly women and children gathered outside an appalachian health clinic. They are seated on benches outside a building. Medical mission staff nurses demonstrate health care practices and basic nursing to audience gathered. A young girl serves as the mock patient. Older nurses lecture audience and demonstrate techniques. Younger (teenage) nurses in training check patient's pulse and temperature. They demonstrate technique for bandaging a hand.
A meal is prepared and served in the southern appalachian mountains near Campbell County, Tennessee. Group of women gathered in a kitchen fill serving plates and bowls with prepared food. Men and women seated at a table are served the food. Possibly a meal involving Presbyterian or Episcopal mission workers involved in providing training and education to Appalachian communities A bouquet of flowers on the table. A console piano behind a woman seated at the table.
View from above of parade along city street celebrating the centenary of Brooklyn, New York. American flag and bunting decorate Brooklyn Borough Hall (former City Hall) near elevated train station. Crowds of Brooklyn residents and visitors watch from sidewalks and some ticker tape is thrown from buildings. Marchers dressed in white carry oversized forks and spoons and follow a decorated truck float carrying Salvation Army members. The back of the float is a sign reading: "Waste Material Helps Us to Reclaim Broken Humanity." Brooklyn Firemen march in dress uniforms. Behind them, dozens of war veterans march, wearing shiny steel helmets and carrying American flags. New York City Mayor, Fiorello LaGuardia, and other officials, salute with hats over hearts, as American Flags pass. Sign on pole near them reads: "Cruising Taxis prohibited." Boy Scouts, carrying dozens of American and troop flags, parade, followed by men in Native American Indian costumes and then by various fraternal groups in the line of march.
Palestinian Arab Refugees in Egypt. Workers unload food supplies sent by United Nations, from trains. These goods are unloaded at warehouses. Registration cards are checked of Palestinian Arab Refugees. Refugees from Palestine get their daily rations of grain and rice. Man unloads a barrel marked with UNICEF, from truck. Milk powder mixed with boiled disease free water. School age children stand in line to collect milk. Boys and girls in the line wait for milk. Men cook meal sitting outside tents and wave fans to keep flies off of the milk. Lebanese cleric speaks with the Refugees including the boys and girls.
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