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...fact a whole house. Smith was born in 1912 in South Orange, the grandson and namesake of a waterworks manufacturer whose name, A. P. Smith, still decorates hydrants in half a dozen major cities. Tony's father inherited the business, and when the boy contracted TB, the family was wealthy enough to build him a prefab isolation ward in the backyard and provide him with his own nurse. Tony joined the family only on holidays, which was fine with him. He hated household smells...
...TB hospital was evacuated. A quarter of Harlingen's population was taken to higher ground in outlying areas. Upstream at Mercedes (pop. 10,081), frantic crews dumped twelve-ton bales of car bodies into the gap at the broken weir, but the arroyo swallowed everything with hardly a gulp, and downstream the tide climbed inexorably. Then liquid fingers poked through a levee north of Harlingen, sending a second spearhead of water toward the heart of town. Surrounded, isolated, exhausted, Harlingen was engulfed...
...effort to guard against further assaults by the sun. But such tanning was not thought of in the U.S. as a sign of health until the 1920s, after sunlight had been publicized as a treatment for tuberculosis. It does indeed increase body production of Vitamin D, which helps control TB, but it has no other beneficial effects except occasional help for a case of acne or psoriasis...
...which grinning peasants hoist the engine of a fallen U.S. bomber on their shoulder poles and haul it home in triumph like a captured tiger. About a third of the footage is indignantly anti-American: shots of schoolchildren digging trenches ("an outrage and an imposition"), views of a TB clinic allegedly destroyed by U.S. bombs that overshot a bridge ("You mustn't be ill near a bridge"). Cameron claims in his commentary that U.S. bombings have not significantly weakened the North's economy, and have actually strengthened the people's will to win; his footage supplies little...
...entries is the hen-shaped wife of a sick friend-they take char together, and then Alfie makes a grab at the old girl, just to "round off the tea nicely." And then there is the nubile nurse (Shirley Anne Field)-while Alfie is recuperating from overexertion in a TB sanatorium, she comes round every night with "something to put you to sleep...