The War On Pneumonia Lner 1938

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Titles read: "THE WAR ON PNEUMONIA".

Pennsylvania, United States of America.

M/S of Supply Chief (of medicine?) Samuel Purveys and Health Secretary Dr Edith Dexter sitting at a desk and looking at a letter - commentator explains it is a request for free serum. They go into a room marked...

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Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
16207
Sort Number:
38/002
Time in/Out:
01:37:41:00 / 01:38:25:00
Canister:
38/2
Film ID:
949.47
Issue Date:
06/01/1938

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