Rickets.

London : University of London Audio-Visual Centre, 1977.

1 encoded moving image : (24.47 min.) : sound, black and white, PAL.

00:24:47

University of London

Restricted

In English

Presented by Professor CE Stroud, Department of Child Health, King's College Hospital Medical School and Dr J Stephen, Nutrition Section, Department of Health and Social Security. Assisted by Dr RH Haas and Dr S Tucker, Hillingdon Hospital and Dr B Sandhu, Department of Child Health, King's College Hospital Medical School. Produced by Trever A Scott. Made by University of London Audio-Visual Centre. Made for British Postgraduate Medical Federation.

This video is one of around 310 titles, originally broadcast on Channel 7 of the ILEA closed-circuit television network, given to Wellcome Trust from the University of London Audio-Visual Centre shortly after it closed in the late 1980s. Although some of these programmes might now seem rather out-dated, they probably represent the largest and most diversified body of medical video produced in any British university at this time, and give a comprehensive and fascinating view of the state of medical and surgical research and practice in the 1970s and early 1980s, thus constituting a contemporary medical-historical archive of great interest.

Segment 1 Opening titles show an Asian man in a turban holding a small baby. Professor CF Stroud demonstrates one of the effects of low blood calcium on the baby's hand reflexes. Still photographs are shown of children with varing degrees of severity of rickets. Time start: 00:00:00:00 Time end: 00:05:44:00 Length: 00:05:44:00

Segment 2 A short film is shown of staff and patients at the Hillingdon Clinic. These include Dr Sandhu sitting at a table with Dr Haas, a female infant and her father. They discuss her case and x-rays are shown of the legs and hands of a child before and after vitamin D therapy. Time start: 00:05:44:00 Time end: 00:11:24:00 Length: 00:05:40:00

Segment 3 Stephen shows a table listing amounts of vitamin D in commonly eaten foods and explains how vitamin D from either the sun or food is absorbed by the body. Time start: 00:11:24:00 Time end: 00:16:39:00 Length: 00:05:15:00

Segment 4 Stroud attempts to explain why rickets is so common among the Asian community. He then talks about vulnerable UK groups, such as children born to vitamin D deficient mothers in Glasgow. Time start: 00:16:39:00 Time end: 00:22:20:00 Length: 00:05:41:00

Segment 5 Stroud talks about different ways of preventing rickets. The programme ends with further shots from Hillingdon Clinc where Dr Sandhu is speaking in Punjabi to a female holding a small infant. Time start: 00:22:20:00 Time end: 00:24:47:19 Length: 00:02:27:19