Rehabilitation of injured sailors by the Seamen's Hospital Society, London. Reel Two.

Date:
194?
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Description

This film in two reels outlines the activities of the Albert Dock Hospital, London. The hospital was established to treat merchant seamen and ensure that if they were injured in any way, then they could return to employment. This film has sepia intertitles. It starts with an intertitle; "Getting fit is a whole time job". The following colour footage shows men, two with broken legs, one with a broken arm in casts catching and throwing a ball over a net. A group of elderly Sikh men watch them (although it is unclear whether they are patients or kitchen staff). Next, various competitive games are held. A nurse watches, chatting to a man. The men practice bowling then some fun games. Gardening is also offered (the allotments back onto terraced housing alongside the hospital). Inside there are exercise bikes for the men to use. There's also table tennis and an amusing obstacle race. Catering is shown and then finally the patient, Abel Seaman, who has recovered returns to work. The intertitle "Getting fit is a whole time job" is repeated.

Publication/Creation

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 194?

Physical description

1 film reel (10 min.) : silent, black and white, 16 mm

Copyright note

Wellcome Trust 2012

Notes

Two of two film reels donated to the Wellcome Library by Gordon Cook. The reels were passed to him by the former principal nursing officer of the Dreadnought Hospital, Greenwich. Gordon Cooks' history of the Seamen's Hospital Society is in the Library; 'Disease in the merchant navy : a history of the Seamen's Hospital Society'.

Creator/production credits

Surgical Director H. E. Griffiths MS, FRCS, Administrator F. A. Lyon

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