Leprosy--Diagnosis
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
DEVELOPMENT OF GOVERNMENT LEPROSY SERVICE IN NIGERIA
Item — Photograph 1: Series Series 3
Identifier: Photograph 1
Scope and Contents
(1) ; D.W.4078.- ; This photograph taken at one of 55 local centres shows: Patients being tested for loss of feeling in the infected skin, a sign of leprosy. The patients eyes are closed and the skin lightly stroked with cotton wool, the patient pointing to the place touched. In this picture the leprous patch is being stroked without any reaction from the patient. ; ISSUED BY THE WEST AFRICAN PHOTOGRAPHIC SERVICE, REGIONAL INFORMATION OFFICE, ACCRA, GOLD COAST, BRITISH WEST AFRICA.--Recto...
Dates:
ca. 1935-1977
DEVELOPMENT OF GOVERNMENT LEPROSY SERVICE IN NIGERIA
Item — Photograph 2: Series Series 3
Identifier: Photograph 2
Scope and Contents
(2) ; D.W.4080.- ; This photograph taken at one of the 55 local centres shows: A healthy African Medical Assitant registering new cases. ; ISSUED BY THE WEST AFRICAN PHOTOGRAPHIC SERVICE, REGIONAL INFORMATION OFFICE, ACCRA, GOLD COAST, BRITISH WEST AFRICA.--Recto ; WEST AFRICAN PHOTOGRAPHIC SERVICE OF THE REGIONAL INFORMATION OFFICE; P.O. Box 555 ; ACCRA GOLD COAST WEST AFRICA ; Photograph No. D.W. 4090 ; CROWN COPYRIGHT RESERVED. ; 2 ; NI-34 -- Verso
Dates:
ca. 1935-1977
DEVELOPMENT OF GOVERNMENT LEPROSY SERVICE IN NIGERIA
Item — Photograph 3: Series Series 3
Identifier: Photograph 3
Scope and Contents
(3) ; D.W.4082.- ; This photograph taken at one of the local centres shows: A senior laboratory attendant examining the skin of patients to ascertain how numerous the lepra bacilli are in each case. ; ISSUED BY THE WEST AFRICAN PHOTOGRAPHIC SERVICE, REGIONAL INFORMATION OFFICE, ACCRA, GOLD COAST, BRITISH WEST AFRICA.--Recto ; WEST AFRICAN PHOTOGRAPHIC SERVICE OF THE REGIONAL INFORMATION OFFICE; P.O. Box 555 ; ACCRA GOLD COAST WEST AFRICA ; Photograph No. D.W. 4082 ; CROWN COPYRIGHT...
Dates:
ca. 1935-1977
DEVELOPMENT OF GOVERNMENT LEPROSY SERVICE IN NIGERIA
Item — Photograph 4: Series Series 3
Identifier: Photograph 4
Scope and Contents
(4) ; D.W.4083.- ; This photograph taken at one of the 55 local centres shows: The back of a van has become a traveling laboratory, smears taken from the skin of patients are made on slides, registered and subsequently examined at the main settlement. ; ISSUED BY THE WEST AFRICAN PHOTOGRAPHIC SERVICE, REGIONAL INFORMATION OFFICE, ACCRA, GOLD COAST, BRITISH WEST AFRICA.--Recto ; WEST AFRICAN PHOTOGRAPHIC SERVICE OF THE REGIONAL INFORMATION OFFICE; P.O. Box 555 ; ACCRA GOLD COAST WEST AFRICA...
Dates:
ca. 1935-1977
DEVELOPMENT OF GOVERNMENT LEPROSY SERVICE IN NIGERIA, 1947-03-20
Item — Photograph 32: Series Series 3
Identifier: Photograph 32
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Vernon McKay Papers document McKay's career as a scholar, teacher, administrator, and employee of the United States Department of State. Fundamentally a research file, the collection mainly consists of printed materials, government documents, seminar papers, research data, reports, broadsides, and newsclippings collected by McKay. These materials, as well as some correspondence, are foldered together in three subseries: the Country File, the Topical File, and Personal...
Dates:
1947-03-20
DEVELOPMENT OF GOVERNMENT LEPROSY SERVICE IN NIGERIA
Item — Photograph 7: Series Series 3
Identifier: Photograph 7
Scope and Contents
(7) ; D.W.4092.- ; This photograph taken at one of the 55 local centres shows: Writing a prescribed dose on a patients body with chalk. This method avoids errors and does away with the need of many pieces of paper. ; ISSUED BY THE WEST AFRICAN PHOTOGRAPHIC SERVICE, REGIONAL INFORMATION OFFICE, ACCRA, GOLD COAST, BRITISH WEST AFRICA.--Recto ; WEST AFRICAN PHOTOGRAPHIC SERVICE OF THE REGIONAL INFORMATION OFFICE; P.O. Box 555 ; ACCRA GOLD COAST WEST AFRICA ; Photograph No. D.W. 4092 ; CROWN...
Dates:
ca. 1935-1977