Diphtheria Beware - Other Item Share This Title (1943)

Title reads: “M of I - Government Official“. Ministry of Information public health trailer about diphtheria. Low angle shot clock ticking. Intertitle: “51, 163“ (number of people who get diphtheria each year). MS children running through countryside. Picture of girl - animated diagrams demonstrate how diphtheria germs attack a child’s body. Same picture - animated diagrams demonstrate how immunisation prevents the germs attacking. MS children in countryside. End title: “Have your child immunised at once - ask about it as at your school, clinic or council offices“. NB: item originally part of Gazette issue 43/60. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies