Public Health Nursing in Manitoba

Creator: Pathescope of Canada, Ltd.

Subjects: Public health nurses; Manitoba; Child care; Medical care

Date: 1921

Language: English

Description: A film produced by Pathescope of Canada, Ltd. that demonstrates the many roles served by nurses of the Provincial Board of Health in Manitoba. It depicts a public heath nurse visiting the Charleswood Municipal Office, lecturing students in a schoolhouse on proper hygiene and administering checkups to the students, visiting a mother and demonstrating proper childcare techniques with her baby, meeting with the Women's Institute, participating in a Child Health Conference at the summer fair, demonstrating childcare techniques to girls as part of the Little Mothers League, conducting a nutrition class, and visiting a rural home in conjunction with the Manitoba Red Cross Society

Contributor: Hart, Margaret Elder

Type: film

Format: VOB

Source: University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections - Margaret Elder Hart fonds (PC 209, A.06-22), Box 1, Item 3

Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba

Copyright statement: Film is in the public domain. Please consult Archives staff for further information.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• public
• health
• nursing
• manitoba
• nurses
• university
• archives
• charleswood
• muncipal
• office
• provincial
• board
• schoolhouse
• students
• lecture
• checkups
• childcare
• techniques
• baby
• women's
• institute
• child
• conference
• summer
• fair
• little
• mothers
• league
• nutrition
• class
• red
• cross
• society