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- Produced in both English and Spanish, the film focuses on the López family, now motherless because of tuberculosis. When Consuelo, the daughter of the family, begins to manifest symptoms, she prays fervently, though a priest advises her to seek medical attention. The opening montage portrays Mexican contributions to the American way of life.
- A doctor explains to his children the dangers of tuberculosis, what it is and how to prevent against contracting it.
- A film on cigarette smoking and health, designed to give young people a wholly new way of looking at cigarette smoking and its health hazards.
- The lives of African-American siblings George and Mary are altered when she gets sick with tuberculosis. Mary disregards any advice about home remedies and goes to a doctor, and both she and George find out that organized religion is an important defensive location in their particular community, that warns of the dangers of the previous generation's superstitions and fear of medicine.
- A young man, Roy, contracts tuberculosis. Contact tracing shows that he has given it to his girlfriend, Julie. They are confined to bed rest and given training for new work. After several months, they are released from the sanitarium.
- A dramatization of the problems of a middle-aged man who, after being discharged from a tuberculosis hospital, encounters snubs, canceled social invitations, and job refusals from people who fear association with him. Explains that recovered tubercular patients are desirable as co-workers and companions, and emphasizes the responsibilities of the community toward former tubercular patients.