Tuberculosis and its hunt for victims (1910-1920)

Italy.

The terrifying spread of tuberculosis across Europe forces specialists to take urgent measures.

Scientists believed that insects, particularly flies, are carriers of bacilli.

Bacilli are spread from the lungs of a tuberculosis patient into the air through coughing.

Laboratory experiments with bacilli of a tuberculosis patient.

X-ray of the lungs of a tuberculosis patient.

Tuberculosis can affect the entire human body and deform the limbs.

Bone tuberculosis is especially dangerous.

But the most common form of the disease is tuberculosis of the respiratory tract, leading to deformation of the human body Italy.

Title on the need to combat tuberculosis.

Map of Europe.

Data on deaths /by country/.

Dynamics of tuberculosis from 1875 to 1914. Data for 1914-1918, indicating a sharp increase in tuberculosis Portrait of R. Koch.

Tuberculosis bacillus under a microscope.

The ways of penetration of tuberculosis bacilli into the human body, in particular, into the lungs, in the diagram.

Pulmonary cavarnas /in the diagram/.

A dummy of a diseased lung.

The scheme of the spread of bacilli by a sick person Italy.

Reproduction of bacilli obtained from a patient in his saliva in a special broth.

Penetration of bacilli into the stomach and into the gastrointestinal tract, lymph, blood, into all organs /in the diagram/.

A dummy of a brain affected by tuberculosis bacilli, dummies of the kidneys, larynx, spleen Italy.

X-ray of a tuberculosis patient.

Curvature of the spine.

Diseased and healthy bones.

A patient with pulmonary tuberculosis in front of a camera.

The chest of a sick and healthy person

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Tuberculosis and the doctor.

Disease diagnosis.

The doctor taps the patient's bronchi and listens to his lungs through a stethoscope.

The patient's saliva collected in a test tube with a white reagent is sent for laboratory testing.

Another way to determine the disease is X-ray.

There are also advisory centers and outpatient clinics where doctors conduct preventive examinations.

To detect the disease, children are given a Pirquet vaccination in three places on the elbow.

Timely detection of the disease helps to cure it faster.

For this purpose, there are special tuberculosis sanatoriums in the mountains.

Patients are treated there with natural air, take natural oxygen baths, lying under coniferous trees.

The artificial Hanau solar lamp is also used in the treatment.

There are children's tuberculosis sanatoriums where children with bone tuberculosis are also treated.

Children's recreation and games in the open air Italy.

Penetration of sticks into milk from a sick animal.

Dairy shop.

The seller pours milk.

The need for mandatory boiling of milk, including that obtained from healthy animals.

The need for strict observance of cleanliness.

The milker washes the cow, then milks it.

Boiling milk.

The need for special care when feeding infants Italy.

The need to observe the rules of personal hygiene and caution when healthy people communicate with sick people.

The patient is in bed.

It is inadmissible to slobber on your fingers when turning pages.

In the frame: a girl slobbers on her fingers, turning pages.

It is inadmissible to spit on the sidewalk.

In the frame: a child removes a shoe from his father's foot, on which there is saliva of a tuberculosis patient Italy.

The need to fight for cleanliness.

A woman washes her hands.

It is inadmissible to scatter handkerchiefs and other things of the sick.

The need to allocate separate rooms for the sick and necessarily a separate bed, as well as separate spittoons Italy.

The patient is lying in bed.

The need to wash the clothes of the sick only in hot water and separately from the linen of healthy people.

Women wash children's linen together with the handkerchiefs of a sick husband Italy.

The need to boil the linen of tuberculosis patients.

The need for complete disinfection of a patient's room.

A person washes the floor and walls of a room.

The need to disinfect linen and blankets.

A diagram of the disinfection of things in a disinfection chamber.

Sterilized items are removed from the chamber Italy.

The importance of tuberculosis prevention.

The need to keep streets clean, eliminate residential basements and attics.

Documentary footage of such dwellings.

A well-yard.

Children playing among the garbage Italy.

An orphanage.

Games in the sun.

Healthy children in front of a camera.

A caption about the need for personal hygiene in combination with "hygiene of the masses"

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Tuberculosis and a healthy person.

How to prevent the disease.

There are frequent cases of tuberculosis infection from the milk of infected cows.

Milk should be thoroughly boiled in a clean dish.

Infection can occur from mother's milk, and from the cough of a nursing mother, and from kisses of a person with tuberculosis.

You can not use handkerchiefs of patients.

A patient with tuberculosis should be completely isolated, and his toilet items should be strictly personal.

The linen of a patient with tuberculosis should be washed strictly separately from other linen.

In the room after a tuberculosis patient, complete disinfection should be done and his bed linen should be disinfected.

The spread of tuberculosis infection is facilitated by places of residence deprived of sunlight, musty rooms, underground dwellings, crowds of people in stuffy rooms, city garbage dumps.

But fresh air, prevention and hygiene, especially in children's institutions, resist the disease.

Crowds of children wave hello to the camera and look into the lens