THE FORGOTTEN FRONTIER Reel 5 · Part 1

Description

RE-ENACTED DOCUMENTARY: Presents the nurses of the Frontier Nursing Service providing child hygiene, midwifery, sick nursing, public health and emergency surgery in the Appalachian mountains. R.1: Visitors come to Wendover, Clay County, Ky. greeted by Mrs. Mary Breckinridge Director, to observe the nurses' activities. Lee's wife gives birth. R.2: Nurses inoculate children and adults at the request of Kentucky State Board of Health in Hazard. R.3: A widowed-man, Elihu, takes his twins to the hospital in Hyden for observation. R.4: Shots of new nursing structure, Possum Bend Center. Nurses make their daily rounds in district. R.5: A gun shot victim is carried by stretcher to the hospital in Leslie County; doctor from Hazard rides 25 miles by horseback to operate on the victim.

Collection

Marvin Breckinridge Collection

Series

Motion Picture Films