Medical Supplies Make Army Fittest Ever: The Other Man’s Job

Series

Series Name

Warwork News

Issue

Issue No.

S15/55

Date Released

28 Aug 1944

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Medical Supplies Make Army Fittest Ever: The Other Man’s Job
2. 2To Victory Through France

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 2

Summary

Medical supplies in production - rubber gloves for surgeons, drugs and vaccines for typhoid, typhus, dysentery, morphia for pain. Many medical supplies sent to Russia. Products in laboratories being tested for purity. The manufacture of hypodermic needles, first aid dressings, yards of gauze for bandages. The packing of medical supplies for despatch to the front.

Keywords

Health and medicine; Industry and manufacture

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name

Imperial War Museum Film and Video Archive

Email

film@iwm.org.uk

Web

http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/film

Phone

020 7416 5291

Fax

020 7416 5379

Address

Lambeth Road
London SE1 6HZ

Notes

The IWM also preserves the original nitrate film copies for the World War II period of British Paramount News, Gaumont British News and Universal News.

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