Yaws in Uganda.
- Date:
- 1946
- Film
About this work
Description
A detailed clinical study of yaws, formerly one of the most widespread and severely disfiguring of all tropical diseases, as seen in the former British Uganda Protectorate on the eve of World War II. Illustrates the primary, secondary and tertiary stages of the disease in both adults and children in vivid and sometimes horrific detail with. Medium shots of distressed children with diseased genitalia and other secondary lesions.
Publication/Creation
London : Wellcome Foundation Film Unit, 1946.
Physical description
1 film reel (17 min.) : silent, black and white
Contributors
Copyright note
Wellcome Trust.
Notes
Two copies (presumably on film) were transferred from Wellcome Foundation Ltd to Wellcome Trust in 1991. The title was included on the 1988 List of Films in the Wellcome Foundation Historical Archive. Both film copies are missing.
Creator/production credits
Filmed by Dr C. J. Hackett 1939 and edited by Douglas Fisher Wellcome Foundation Film Unit 1946.
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Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores248FUnavailable Can't be requested Note