Ministry of Health

A Centre Office of Information (COI) production about smoking.

The flower fairies help a little girl named Mary to thwart germs.

A hard-hitting public information film made at the height of the Great Influenza 1918-18.

Reported cases of sexually transmitted disease took a sharp rise during and after World War II, but as this film testifies, sexual license amongst soldiers on the frontline wasn't the sole cause. Back on the home front, for many women, like Joan from No. 19, loneliness or newfound independence acted as an incentive to extramarital promiscuity.

You're asking for trouble when you play with fire - and this public information film is the stuff of nightmares.

Dover made over: this quirky and pointed public information film reveals how the heavily-bombed and shelled Kent town was being replanned after the war. The filmmakers cleverly and entertainintly capture our attention by opening on travelogue cliches that they quickly undercut. It's not white cliffs and rolling hills they want to tell us about. It's present-day Dover - remaking itself in the crisp freshness of a postwar spring.

This film explains how sneezing in public can spread disease, and shows how using a handkerchief can stop it.

Hard-hitting depiction of the danger to children of burns and scalds.

A film about the National Health Act that established the NHS, and how it benefitted communities. It starts with a bleak look, when coordinated patient care is non-existent, patients cannot see the right specialist when they need to and a family is split up over Christmas.

British documentary on Tuberculosis.