Sudan: a young man drinking a beaker of water from a clay urn designed to protect drinking water from mosquitoes and flies; representing improvements in hygiene introduced by the Sudan Medical Service. Photograph, 19--.

London (8 Salisbury Square, Fleet Street, London E.C. 4) : Wide World Photos, [between 1900 and 1999]

1 photograph : photoprint ; image 15.3 x 20 cm

Great Britain defeats the mosquitoes. The remotest medical station in world. The last ten years brought the greatest medical revolution for centuries in the Sudan ... Text on typed sheet attached to verso: Exclusive feature set of the New York Times, London: Great Britain defeats the mosquitoes. The remotest medical station in world. The last ten years brought the greatest medical revolution for centuries in the Sudan which is comperatively [sic] perhaps more important than the discoveries and inventions of the greatest doctors of mankind. Ten years ago the Sudan was the center of horrible diseases threatening other continents because of the danger that the contagious diseases would spread beyond her borders. To-day she is the healthiest country in the world. This marvel of change was effected by a few men.: the British doctors of the Sudan Medical Service. Their tremendous work started exactly ten years ago when the Egyptians left the Sudan and the Government became British. The first thing they did was the organisation of this medical service which immediately started a war against the mosquitoes and different germ[s] hiding in the dirty houses of the natives, in the lakes and standing waters. In the remotest parts of the country they established medical stations which are run by native doctors or medical officers who were trained in the newly erected Lord Kitchener School of Medicine in Khartoum. Our exclusive pictures show the work in the most distant medical station of the S.M.S. in Gallabat, on the Abyssinian border, a place known as the unhealthiest among the unhealthy Sudanese villages, where malaria mosquitoes and tse-tse flies rules [sic] for centuries ... Water supplies [sic] is the problem of the Gallabat hospital. The water is stored in the water urn made of clay seen on the right of this picture.

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