Poliomyelitis isolation hospital, Kakonko, Tanganyika.

Date:
1956
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Description

A unique film 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], 1956.

Physical description

1 videocassette (VHS) (17 min.) : silent, color, PAL.

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)

Copyright note

Dr. Oakey, 1956.

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