Title:CIVIL AFFAIRS SERVICE (BURMA) - MEDICAL TREATMENT OF BURMESE IN MANDALAY [Allocated Title]
Film Number:JFU 98
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Some of the civilian population of Mandalay, Burma, are treated for malnutrition, disease and shrapnel and bullet wounds in a temporary hospital.
Description: The hospital building with Burmese people gathered outside; a jeep drives past. A sign reads "Civil. Hospital visits (sic) hours 8 am to 12 pm 4 pm to 6 pm". A Burmese man is vaccinated and a queue is formed behind him. A small child is vaccinated as she is held by her father. A woman is vaccinated; Corporal T J Jones RAMC (Royal Army Medical Corps) from Swansea carries out the vaccinations. More Burmese queue. A small boy wearing a straw hat is vaccinated. Several more small children are injected. One small child watches the needle with terror then bursts into tears. Burmese women squat outside the outpatient department. A sign reads "Outpatient Department". Captain G Skinner removes bandages from a patient with a bullet wound. Penicillin is injected into the arm of a woman who has almost gone blind due to malnutrition; her bed is out on the verandah of the hospital in the open air. Captain Skinner and Captain Denlow RAMC discuss a patient. A sign reads "Genarel (sic) Ward". A colour chart is compared to a blood sample by a doctor. Indian orderlies take a patient into the hospital on a stretcher. A Tuberculosis patient is visited by relatives.
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: War Office Directorate of Public Relations (Production sponsor)
SEAC Film Unit (Production company)
Miller, E E (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Civil Affairs Service, Burma (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Army Medical Corps (regiment/service)
Indian Army, Indian Army Medical Corps (regiment/service)
Keywords: Mandalay, Burma (geography)
Mandalay 1945, Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event)
Burma 1942-1945 (theme)
British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
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