Japanese-B encephalitis in South India
- Date:
- 1960
- Videos
About this work
Description
Cases of Japanese-B encephalitis were identified in Madras, India, 1955-56. The film explains via intertitles how the disease was recognised with the help of the Christian Medical College Hospital at Vellore and the Virus Research Centre run by the Indian Council of Medical Research/Rockefeller Foundation. Footage is captured of the typical breeding grounds for the disease carrying mosquitoes. Children play outside barefoot. Various busy semi-rural Indian street scenes. Rural scenes with village life and various agriculture. Baiting traps for the tsetse flies are set around the cattle and other livestock.
Publication/Creation
South India, 1960
Physical description
1 encoded moving image (10 mins.) : silent, colour
Notes
Donated in 2001 from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine as a teaching film used 1960-1976.
Label on can indicates ' Prof Beiher (hard to read?) shows DTM 1971'.
Creator/production credits
D. S. Bertram, Department of Entomology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Rockefeller Foundation, Virus Research Centre, Poona, the Entomological Unit at Vallore aided in the making of this film.