WEBVTT 00:16.400 --> 00:29.300 [Singing:] Oh, I know the Lord, I know the Lord/ I know the Lord has laid his hands on me 00:29.300 --> 00:40.400 [The National Tuberculosis Association cooperating with Tuskegee Institute, National Urban League] 00:40.400 --> 00:46.400 [Works Progress Administration, U.S. Veterans Administration, presents] 00:46.400 --> 00:50.100 [Let My People Live] 00:50.100 --> 01:00.266 [Singing:] Oh, I can see him after death/ I know the Lord has laid his hands on me 01:00.266 --> 01:13.166 [Cast: Rex Ingram, Peggy Howard, Merritt Smith, Erostine Coles, Robert Anderson, Christine Johnson, Jackson Burnside] 01:13.166 --> 01:16.599 [Choir: William L. Dawson] 01:16.600 --> 01:29.400 [Directed by Edgar Ulmer, Dramatic Assistants: S.E. Walker, Edward Lawson, Camera: William Miller, Sound: Nelson Minnerly] 01:29.400 --> 01:35.866 [Produced by Motion Picture Service Corporation, Variray Blue Seal Recording] 01:35.866 --> 01:44.366 [Singing:] Oh, I know the Lord, I know the Lord/ I know the Lord has laid his hands on me 01:46.333 --> 01:55.433 [Dr. Gordon:] Before we go to our classes, I want to say as your student medical advisor, one final word about tuberculosis. 01:55.433 --> 02:01.099 We, as Negros, seem to be particularly susceptible to this disease. 02:01.100 --> 02:10.633 The reason is the great majority of our homes are poor, and our work hard. And we don't have money to get treated when we should. 02:10.633 --> 02:19.433 Now, if you have any of the symptoms of tuberculosis, such as coughing, unusual fatigue, a loss of weight, 02:19.433 --> 02:23.066 go at once to a physician for an examination. 02:23.066 --> 02:29.866 Tuberculosis can be cured, but only if treatment is started soon enough. 02:40.566 --> 02:45.266 [Man 1:] Thank you Dr. Gordon. Thus we close our Negro Health Week Service. 02:45.266 --> 02:53.066 [Singing] 02:53.066 --> 02:54.099 [George:] Hello? 02:54.100 --> 02:59.366 [Mary:] Hello George? This is Mary. Yes, your sister. 02:59.366 --> 03:04.399 George, Mama's very sick. The doctor says you'd better come right home. 03:04.400 --> 03:10.700 [Singing] 03:10.700 --> 03:12.400 [Man 2:] What's the matter? 03:12.400 --> 03:18.533 [George:] My mother's very sick. She has tuberculosis. She's had it for years. 03:18.533 --> 03:25.133 But she'd never see a doctor. I have to go home. 03:25.133 --> 03:28.166 [Man 2:] Will this help you? 03:28.166 --> 03:32.266 [George:] Thanks. I won't forget this. 03:32.266 --> 03:46.466 [Singing:] Tell old Pharoah/ Let my people go/ 03:46.466 --> 04:15.132 Swing low, sweet chariot/ Coming for to carry me home/ [Singing] 04:15.133 --> 04:19.599 Swing low, sweet chariot 04:19.600 --> 04:25.933 [Mary:] George! [Singing:] Coming for to carry me home 04:25.933 --> 04:27.733 [Mary:] George! [George:] Mary! 04:27.733 --> 04:34.433 [Singing:] ...what did I see/ Coming for to carry me home/ 04:34.433 --> 04:43.066 A band of angels coming after me/ Coming for to carry me home 04:45.966 --> 05:05.832 [Bell ringing] [Singing:] Nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee/ 05:05.833 --> 05:25.199 E'en though it be a cross that raiseth me 05:25.200 --> 05:28.233 [Reverend Jenkins:] The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away. 05:28.233 --> 05:40.999 [Singing:] ...all my song shall be/ Nearer... 05:41.000 --> 05:46.800 [Reverend Jenkins:] The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away. But oh Lord, let my people live. 05:50.500 --> 05:53.233 Come in, sister. 05:53.233 --> 05:54.633 [Mary:] It's about Mama, Reverend Jenkins. 05:54.633 --> 05:57.333 [Reverend Jenkins:] She was a good woman, Miss Baxter. 05:57.333 --> 06:03.099 [Mary:] She had tuberculosis. Consumption, she called it. 06:03.100 --> 06:08.200 I'm scared, Reverend Jenkins. They say it runs in the family. 06:08.200 --> 06:10.266 If Mama had... then I have it too. 06:10.266 --> 06:13.532 [Reverend Jenkins:] No. I don't know that it mean that at all. 06:13.533 --> 06:20.033 Some people think that tuberculosis can be passed down from mother to child. That's not true. 06:20.033 --> 06:24.366 I'm not a doctor, but I've read a lot about tuberculosis. 06:24.366 --> 06:30.466 It comes from a germ, and it's passed along by contact of one person with another. 06:30.466 --> 06:39.699 [Mary:] But I have the same symptoms Mama had. I have a cough, I feel tired like she did all the time, and I can't eat. 06:39.700 --> 06:41.466 [Reverend Jenkins:] That's not so good. 06:41.466 --> 06:42.932 [Mary:] But what can I do? 06:42.933 --> 06:49.099 [Reverend Jenkins:] You be smart! You go to see a doctor. If you can't afford that, go to a clinic. 06:49.100 --> 06:53.566 The doctor will test you and tell you whether or not you have tuberculosis. 06:53.566 --> 07:00.499 If he says no, that's fine. If he says yes, do exactly what he tells you. 07:00.500 --> 07:05.000 But don't let anyone tell you that tuberculosis can't be cured. 07:05.000 --> 07:11.666 [Mary:] All right. I'll go to see Dr. Gordon tomorrow. Good evening, Reverend Jenkins. Thank you. 07:17.466 --> 07:20.466 [Minnie:] Hello, Mary! Where are you going? 07:20.466 --> 07:21.599 [Mary:] To Dr. Gordon's. 07:21.600 --> 07:26.300 [Minnie:] Mm-hmm. I know'd it. You got the same thing your mother had ain't you? 07:26.300 --> 07:29.100 [Mary:] I'm not sure, Minnie. I've got to find out. 07:29.100 --> 07:33.300 [Minnie:] Listen, honey. Ain't no use of you fooling yourself. You know you got it. 07:33.300 --> 07:34.633 [Mary:] Well I have to get treated. 07:34.633 --> 07:41.233 [Minnie:] Oh, you're going in there? Ha! Girl, aint no doctor in the world can cure you of no tuberculosis. 07:41.233 --> 07:42.833 [Mary:] Well who can? 07:42.833 --> 07:44.566 [Minnie:] My grandma can. 07:44.566 --> 07:51.766 You see, uh, she makes this special kind of a tea out of herbs and roots and stuff, and 'fore you know it, old consumption's gone. 07:51.766 --> 07:54.966 And she don't charge half as much as this doctor does, neither. 07:54.966 --> 07:58.566 [Mary:] My mother believed in that. Roots, herbs, and teas. 07:58.566 --> 08:01.332 I've got to see Dr. Gordon. [Minnie:] Oh, come on, girl! 08:18.566 --> 08:24.832 [Mary:] I'm getting better, George. Dr. Gordon said I was so sensible to come to see him so early. 08:24.833 --> 08:32.533 George, how about you? Of course you weren't with Mama as much as I was, but you might have caught it too. 08:32.533 --> 08:34.466 [George:] Oh, I'm all right. 08:34.466 --> 08:42.466 [Mary:] You may feel all right. George, why don't you run over and let Dr. Gordon look you over. He's a real doctor. 08:42.466 --> 08:44.632 Promise me you will. 08:44.633 --> 08:46.733 [George:] Well, maybe I will. 08:51.600 --> 08:52.466 [Cough] 08:56.466 --> 08:57.232 [Cough] 08:59.966 --> 09:00.766 [Cough] 09:03.933 --> 09:08.366 [Dr. Gordon:] Well, I don't hear anything. But we aren't through yet. Sit down, young man. 09:24.266 --> 09:26.099 [George:] What's that for, doctor? 09:26.100 --> 09:31.866 [Dr. Gordon:] I'm going to put a drop of this solution into your arm. It's called tuberculin. 09:31.866 --> 09:36.466 Now, in two days, if the spot where I make the injection is raised and reddened, 09:36.466 --> 09:42.166 it means that at one time in your life, tuberculosis germs got into your body. 09:44.033 --> 09:45.966 [George:] Oh, it didn't hurt a bit, doc. 09:48.766 --> 09:50.499 How does it look, doctor? 09:54.633 --> 09:57.233 [Dr. Gordon:] Hmm. Positive. 09:57.233 --> 09:59.533 [George:] Does that mean I have tuberculosis? 09:59.533 --> 10:03.066 [Dr. Gordon:] No, but I'm going to send you to a hospital to have an x-ray made. 10:05.400 --> 10:07.600 Here's a picture of your chest. 10:07.600 --> 10:15.866 Now, that spot there is what we call a primary tubercle. It means that the germs got into your lungs at one time, maybe long ago. 10:15.866 --> 10:17.966 But you were healthy, and your body took care of it. 10:17.966 --> 10:20.299 [George:] Gee, I'm glad to hear that! 10:26.400 --> 10:29.500 [Dr. Gordon:] What you've got to do now is to keep your good health. 10:29.500 --> 10:35.233 Don't use up too much of your energy either in work or play, or staying out late at night. 10:35.233 --> 10:38.466 Eat well-balanced meals, and get plenty of fresh air. 10:38.466 --> 10:46.199 If the danger sign of fatigue, coughing, loss of weight, or pains in the chest appear, don't fail to come in and see me. 10:46.200 --> 10:51.133 [George:] Thanks doctor! I'm certainly glad to know I haven't got it. 10:51.133 --> 10:53.799 Oh, how is Mary getting along? 10:53.800 --> 10:57.966 [Dr. Gordon:] Well, she's getting the very best of care at the sanatorium, and she'll be well pretty soon now. 10:57.966 --> 11:00.266 [George:] Gee.That's swell. 11:01.733 --> 11:05.966 [Dr. Gordon:] Now you see why it's so important that tuberculosis be discovered early. 11:05.966 --> 11:12.632 Every young person from fifteen to 25 should have a tuberculin test and an x-ray. 11:12.633 --> 11:16.533 You see, they may find, as you did, that they need only rest and care. 11:16.533 --> 11:20.466 Or they may find that their lungs, like your sister's, need treatment right away. 11:20.466 --> 11:25.366 The quicker they know and the sooner they get treated, the better their chances are to get well. 11:25.366 --> 11:31.299 This is especially true of our race. Many of us wait too long before starting treatment. 11:31.300 --> 11:34.466 We must teach our people that tuberculosis is curable. 11:34.466 --> 11:42.066 And we must show them that every person with tuberculosis is a menace to his family if his case isn't put under a doctor at once. 11:42.066 --> 11:46.366 [George:] Thanks, doctor. You make me see things in a different light. 11:49.433 --> 11:53.133 [Singing:] ...ever and ever/ Hallelujah! Hallelujah!/ 11:53.133 --> 11:59.699 And Lord of lords/ For ever and ever, Hallelujah! Hallelujah!/ 11:59.700 --> 12:05.500 King of kings!/ For ever and ever, Hallelujah! Hallelujah!/ 12:05.500 --> 12:08.533 And Lord of lords... 12:08.533 --> 12:11.099 [Mary:] I feel as though I were right there. 12:11.100 --> 12:15.833 [Woman:] It's too bad Mary you couldn't go down to see George graduate. 12:15.833 --> 12:22.433 But just think how lucky you are. You are well and have a good job. 12:22.433 --> 12:23.599 [Mary:] Yes. 12:25.766 --> 12:28.532 I wish Mama were here. 12:31.300 --> 12:34.733 I almost think I hear George's voice. 12:34.733 --> 12:38.733 [Singing:] King of kings/ For ever, and ever/ 12:38.733 --> 12:42.766 And Lord of lords/ Hallelujah! Hallelujah!/ 12:42.766 --> 12:48.899 And he shall reign for ever and ever and ever/ 12:48.900 --> 12:56.633 King of kings and Lord of lords/ King of kings and Lord of lords/ 12:56.633 --> 13:02.633 And he shall reign for ever and ever/ 13:02.633 --> 13:10.799 King of kings, and Lord of Lords/ Forever and ever, Hallelujah! Hallelujah!/ Hallelujah! Hallelujah!/ 13:10.800 --> 13:12.633 Hallelujah! 13:12.633 --> 13:18.866 [The End]