TRAINING INDIAN NURSES NEAR MADRAS [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: TRAINING INDIAN NURSES NEAR MADRAS [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: MGH 6451
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  • Summary: Brief rushes sequence from recruitment film for female Indian nurses to join the Auxiliary Nursing Service shows British nursing Sister Joyce White of the Queen Alexandra Imperial Nursing Service demonstrating to an Indian nurse how to take the temperature and pulse of a patient in an all-Indian hospital (under the auspices of the British Army) at Avadi near Madras in Southern India.
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  • Colour: B&W
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  • Object_Number: MGH 6451
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM (MGH 6451)
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  • Production Date: 1945
  • Production Country: India
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  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 100ft (ca); Running time: 1 min
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  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    MGH 6451

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:

    ACQ1/DOC/D/1078 (Dunnings, Mrs J)
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