Poliomyelitis isolation hospital, Kakonko, Tanganyika.
- Date:
- 1991
- Audio
About this work
Description
This is a unique record of life and work in the temporary 100-bed isolation hospital established at Kakonko in the Kibondo District of Tanganyika by Drs. J.S. Oakey and I. Lanfer of the Tanganyika Medical Service during a severe outbreak of poliomyelitis in 1956-57. Shows diagnostic testing of muscle activity and reflexes in children, and the pitiful physical condition of severely affected children in the final stages of the disease.
Publication/Creation
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1991.
Physical description
1 sound cassette (17 min.)
1 sound mini-disk cassette (17 min.)
1 sound mini-disk cassette (17 min.)
Copyright note
Dr. Oakey, 1956.
Notes
Given to the Wellcome Trust and the National Film Archive by Dr. Oakey and Mr. Peter Oakey in March 1991. The Wellcome Library holds a VHS copied from 8mm. original; permission to digitise the recording was given by Mr. Alan Oakey in 2012.
Creator/production credits
Dr. John S. Oakey (former District Medical Officer, Kibondo, Tanganyika Medical Service)
Type/Technique
Languages
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores1058ALocation Access Closed stores1058AMNote