Poliomyelitis isolation hospital, Kakonko, Tanganyika.
- Date:
- 1991
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- Online
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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] : Non-broadcast recording, 1991.
Physical description
1 encoded audio file (17.33 min.) : 44.1kHz
Duration
00:17:33
Copyright note
Dr Oakey 1991
Terms of use
Unrestricted.
Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 2.0 UK: England & Wales
Language note
In English.
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.
Contents
Programme Time start: 00:00:00 Time end: 00:17:33 Length: 00:17:33
Additional commentary on films: Dr Oakey describes the government launch site on Lake Tanganyika and then talks about the journey (filmed about 1955-56) . He makes mention of the fact that this was also an opportunity for family to join the safari; the purpose of the journey was administrative and medical. The young boy on the launch is in fact Mr. Alan Oakey. The material is not compiled in strict chronological order; there are sequences relating to the installation of the Sultan in Morogoro at several points (from 1956/7-59). A trip to the Serengeti is commented upon; Mr. Alan Oakey recollects that some of this film was actually filmed by himself from the top of a Landrover as it was easier for him to climb up there to get the wider view. In commenting on the Kakonko polio epidemic Dr Oakey mentions a number of names, two of which are "Buck" Buxton and David Jeffreson. There are clinical sequences and condition of patients. Film 5; Dr Oakley comments about a trip to Uganda (he mentions the Oweb Falls Dam). Not mentioned explicitly in the narration, it was in fact to examine medical students at the then "Makerere University College Medical School".