Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps
- List of plates
- List of tables
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Map 1 Africa: political
- 1 Disease and medicine in the history of Africa
- 2 From private empire to public colony
- 3 Mise en valeur: economic exploitation
- 4 Epidemiology and ecology of human sleeping sickness
- 5 ‘The Lure of the Exotic’: sleeping sickness, tropical medicine and imperialism
- 6 Discovery: Liverpool scientists in the Congo
- 7 The campaign. Part one: sleeping sickness and social medicine
- 8 The campaign. Part two: the surveys and tensions
- 9 The African response
- 10 Public health, social engineering and African lives
- 11 Conclusion and legacy
- Appendices
- A Health legislation and instructions, 1888–1934
- B Sample documentation
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index
A - Health legislation and instructions, 1888–1934
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 January 2010
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps
- List of plates
- List of tables
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Map 1 Africa: political
- 1 Disease and medicine in the history of Africa
- 2 From private empire to public colony
- 3 Mise en valeur: economic exploitation
- 4 Epidemiology and ecology of human sleeping sickness
- 5 ‘The Lure of the Exotic’: sleeping sickness, tropical medicine and imperialism
- 6 Discovery: Liverpool scientists in the Congo
- 7 The campaign. Part one: sleeping sickness and social medicine
- 8 The campaign. Part two: the surveys and tensions
- 9 The African response
- 10 Public health, social engineering and African lives
- 11 Conclusion and legacy
- Appendices
- A Health legislation and instructions, 1888–1934
- B Sample documentation
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index
Summary
Following are some of the more relevant items of legislation and instructions which pertained to human trypanosomiasis in northern Congo. It can be observed that the medical service itself was a direct outgrowth of the campaign against sleeping sickness.
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- The Colonial DiseaseA Social History of Sleeping Sickness in Northern Zaire, 1900–1940, pp. 234 - 240Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1992