Sanitary and Hygienic Regime in Elevators and Warehouses

The film tells about the sanitary and hygienic regime in elevators and warehouses in 1939. Workers pour grain from bags into an elevator. Grain is poured off the conveyor belt. Dust deposited on machinery. Fire caused by ignited dust. Firefighters extinguish the fire. A scientist in the laboratory examines the dust under a microscope. Cleaning the premises: women sweep the dust, wash the floors in the elevator; men cover the grain with an awning, clean equipment, disinfect the premises. Type of ventilation ducts in warehouses. Women remove weeds from the warehouse. A man sprinkles water on trees with a hose, washes the territory of the procurement station. General view of the barriers of the procurement station. Ancillary buildings in the utility yard. Facade of the grain laboratory building. The woman takes samples of the incoming grain shipments. Grain research in the laboratory. Grain samples stored in glass jars. Employees of the procurement station put on respirators, gauze bandages on their faces when working with dusty grain. Cleaning grain from dust using grain cleaning machines. Workers carry sacks of grain; grain is poured in one of the sacks. The man collects the spilled grain with a shovel and takes it to the cleaning machine. Cleaning grain on sorting with a dust collector. Dust collector type. A type of a mobile magnetic catcher for cleaning grain from metal objects. Aspiration unit type. Automatic electrical device with photocells, which controls air purity. The dispatcher is at the control panel. Masters check the operation of the installation, the conveyor. The foreman checks the attachment of the buckets to the conveyor belt. The siren sounds. The dispatcher turns off the devices. The workers clean the machines with a vacuum cleaner and clean the premises with a brush. The horses are carrying bags of waste on carts. The container is kept in a special storage room. Oil cleaning of mechanisms damaged by moisture. Workers clean their clothes with scrapers and brushes before entering the granary. Traps laid out in the granary for walking on grain. Measuring the temperature in the granary. Ventilation of warehouses: workers open windows. Pigeons peck at the grain, contaminating it. Rats, mice gnaw grain. A laboratory assistant examines under a microscope barn mites spread by rats and birds. Workers protect doors and windows from pests with nets, clog up the jams of warehouses, upholster the doors with iron, fill rat holes with cement and broken glass, and set up rat traps. The rat drinks water. Workers cut off access to water for rats. Rats are running around the yard. It is raining, water is flowing through cracks in the roof. Workers wipe up puddles, fill up cracks on the roof. The type of grains spoiled by water. Microscopic view of weevil mites that have multiplied in wet grain. Shoveling, passing through the conveyors of wet grain. Grain passing through the grain dryer.

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