# WWII RESTRICTED FILM FIGHTING LICE LOUSE CONTROL 22744

This is a British training film, revised by the U.S. Army Signal Corps for use in American basic training. In this film, lice are seen, their breeding described, their feeding and the different diseases they transmit to human body. At mark 1:15 , lice are seen on clothing for one of their favorite hide out is in seams of clothes. Each corners of the clothing is used for egg production as seen at mark 1:43 . Under the microscope, the eggs appear as grains of rice. They hatch out very quickly while the warmth from human’s body act as incubator for them and saving the mother from any further responsibility as seen at mark 2:05 . Here they are on the human body and they suck the blood and die as seen at mark 2;32. The lice is capable of giving a man septic skin infections, relapsing fever, typhus and trench fever as seen at mark 2:52 . Septic skin infection result from scratching after been bitten as seen at mark 3:12 . Relapsing fever is seen at mark 3:29 which result from the blood mixing of the lice and human’s. Typhus and trench fever is seen at mark 3:40 . This is caused from the pellets of the lice which drop on clothing and is been transmitted into the air. This is seen at mark 4:05 . History is full of disasters caused by these tiny beasts. These are seen from mark 4:13 through to mark 5:08 . By cleaning oneself clean, lice can be prevented as seen at mark 5:25 . Blankets and clothing should be kept to yourself. All blackest are sealed up and fully seamed to get rid of…

- Kind: Film
- Genres: War, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/22744TheLouse)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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