A survey of physical damage of bomb blasts in Nagasaki, Japan after World War II. Failure of the roof of the Shirayama School. The back of the building protected from blast. Two members of a physical team inspect the effect of the blast on an institute for deaf and dumb. Captain Orin and his assistant stretch a tape along the wall of the institute in order to ascertain the extent of structural failure. The team measures the displacement of a hollow pored concrete vent on the institute building. Members of the physical damage team work on the second floor of the institute. Collapse of the back wall of the institute. The physical damage team measures the extent of displacement and distortion. Reinforcements loose from the concrete of the wall.
Prisoners at the Concentration Camp in Dachau, Germany. Prisoners lined up. One of the prisoners shows his physical condition at the camp. The prisoner eats. Prisoner seated wearing prisoners dress at the camp. He eats a biscuit and smiles. (World War II period).
Repatriation of French prisoners from a German Nazi concentration camp in Paris, France. Two former prisoners dressed in striped prison uniforms seated at a table. A nurse stands behind them. One of the prisoners has his head bandaged. He has a number on his uniform. The prisoners leave the room. Two officers seated at the table. The prisoner with the bandaged head removes his uniform. A nurse behind him. Another former prisoner shows the Nazi concentration camp prison number tattoo on his arm. Several prisoners take showers. An army doctor examines a former prisoner. In an adjacent room, a nurse talks to a prisoner seated across a table. The doctor examining a former prisoner. Several nurses examining the repatriated prisoners and using a spray delousing agent to spray clothing of the men. (World War II period).
Treatment for combat exhaustion cases among U.S. soldiers following combat in World War II. U.S. officers talk about operation plan of a hospital and speak about three sections including admission, treatment and rehabilitation. A patient undergoes a physical examination. A dental survey and necessary laboratory studies. Doctors seated at table to perform an intelligence tests and mental examination. Psychiatric and other personality tests and intelligence test are administered including Rorschach test and Kohs block design test. The doctors check the psychiatric and physical report of the patient by looking at an X-ray. Patients receive sleep therapy: A nurse and an army doctor give narcosis therapy (continuous sleep treatment), by administering barbituates that keep a patient asleep for 18-20 hours per day for several days. Insulin is used on "loss of weight" cases: Combat exhausted soldiers lying on beds and receiving insulin before breakfast by nurses to stimulate their appetite. A nurse checks the weight of a patient during treatment. A nurse checks the diet which will be given to the patients in a kitchen. A patient receives an electric shock therapy treatment. A doctor injects a medicine into a patient. The patients go through physical exercises to maintain physical fitness. The patients are reeducated to know the causes of diseases. (Note: Clips deals with treatment for Combat Exhaustion, also later termed Post-traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD.)
National Youth Administration in cooperation with U.S. Public Health Service determines youths' fitness to work in the United States. Boys receive physical examination, check up of heart and check up for diseases caused by an improper diet. Doctors examine NYA women workers to diagnose tuberculosis. Boys and girls are examined by doctors at a free clinic. X-rays of NYA workers are taken. An X-ray is viewed by the doctors. An examination shows presence of tuberculosis in the boys and the girls. An NYA health personnel makes a report of physical fitness.
Group of Chinese prisoners in bad physical shape at the Chosin Reservoir. Faces of the Chinese prisoners. A prisoner pours something out of a can into his hand which he puts to his mouth. A U.S. Marine gives a prisoner a drink of water. The prisoner's frozen hands. A prisoner who was captured barefooted. His feet are frozen solid with ice around the bottom of trousers. A prisoner smoking a cigarette.
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