To Stem Smallpox Disease AKA To Stem Disease (1954)

Unissued / unused material - dates and locations may be unclear / unknown. Rhodesian newsreel item. Title reads: “To Stem Disease“ Zomba, (possibly in Nyasaland / Malawi or Northern Rhodesia / Zimbabwe) Africa LS Cows in pastures at the Pyu Pyu Prison Farm near Zomba. (2 shots). CU Sign: “Government Pathologist“. MS Pathologists at work on cow as it lies on operating table (4 shots). MS Cows grazing. (3 shots). MS Laboratory technicians / pathologists at work cultivating smallpox vaccine from cowpox. CU Scientist planting bacillus from cow on agar agar culture. (3 shots). MS and CU Technicians drawing off the vaccine in liquid form. MS and CU Laboratory technicians mixing the vaccine with lanolin and filling small tubes. (3 shots). CU A heap of sealed tubes, hand dipping tube into hot wax then cold water to seal it. LS Exterior of hospital or clinic. MS Interior clinic, Africans waiting in a queue for smallpox vaccinations. MS Man receiving vaccination. LS A table set up in a village where smallp
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