Four reports on yellow fever in Nigeria during 1913 / by E.J. Wyler.

  • Wyler, Edwin Joseph.
Date:
[1915](repr.)
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Credit: Four reports on yellow fever in Nigeria during 1913 / by E.J. Wyler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    comparison, a table showing the rainfall (and also the average maximum shade temperature) for the months of March, April, and May, 1911, 1912, and 1913. III. Medical Adniinistratio7i There are two Native Medical Officers at Abeokuta. They are employed by the Abeokuta (Egba) Government. The Medical Officer (European) at Aro (about two miles from Abeokuta, on the opposite side of the river) attends to Europeans. IV. The patient's health prior to his illness I find that: (i) He had suffered from what his friends describe as ' gastric attacks,' ' stomach trouble,' and ' chronic biliousness ' for more than three years. (ii) He suffered from boils in the left axilla and one or two on the body, which he said were very painful, about one week before going to Lagos, (iii) For a year preceding his death he was apparently very ' run down,' and his cachectic appearance was a subject of general comment. His occupation was arduous to him, and he complained a good deal about the excessive exertion it entailed. He had three ' stores' (shops) to manage, and he was the only representative of his firm in Abeokuta. One of these shops formed part of his residence, and it was necessary for him, to visit the other two, which are in opposite direetions at a distance of two or three miles, once a day. The journey, over a hilly road, was usually accomplished by bicycle, his motor-cycle, after the manner of some of its kind, being mostly hors de combat. The shops were closed daily about 3.30 p.m. He is said always to have used a mosquito-net at night. V. Actual movements of the patient for three months before his illness On consulting his diary, to which I have had access by the courtesy of his successor, it appears that he went to Lagos on Sunday, gth February, purely on business in response to a telegram