The forgotten frontier
- Author(s):
- Patterson, Mary Marvin Breckinridge.
- Contributor(s):
- Breckinridge, Mary, 1881-1965 Frontier Nursing Service, inc.
- Publication:
- [Hayden, KY] : The Nursing Services, [1931]
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Moving image
- Subject(s):
- Child Health Services Maternal Health Services Nursing Services Rural Health Kentucky
- Abstract:
- This is an unique and historically valuable film depicting the important medical aid that the Frontier Nursing Service provided in the Appalachian region of Kentucky. The Service provided child hygiene, midwifery, sick nursing, medical care, dentistry, public health, and emergency surgery for poor, mountain people. Film shows patients' and nurses' cabins, children, town, and gives flavor of their lives, language, and problems. Scenes include: nurses crossing river at night in ice and snow on horseback to deliver babies, nurses innoculating townsfolk at one-room school, nurses and men making a strecher in forest and walking 7 hours carrying a man with gunshot wound to hospital, steam trains, etc. Exterior of Wendover headquarters, Frontier Nursing Service Hospital, etc. Paper file contains film production details.
- Copyright:
- The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. (More information)
- Extent:
- 071 min.
- Color:
- Black and white
- Sound:
- Silent
- Credits:
- Mary Breckinridge.
- Provenance:
- Received: (date unknown); donation; from Mrs. Jefferson Patterson (Marvin Breckinridge Patterson).
- Technique:
- Live action
- NLM Unique ID:
- 8600028A (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/8600028A