A medical survey in a gold coast village
- 1 December 1950
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
- Vol. 44 (3), 271-290
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(50)90055-1
Abstract
A survey of a village of 255 inhabitants located on the Gold Coast of Africa shows that the avg. African is not healthy according to European standards, but is undersized, anemic, and disease-ridden. Malaria, hookworms, ascarids, schistosomes, filariids, yaws, malnutrition, and sickle- anemia are all present in significant abundance to account for the general unthrifty appearance of these natives.Keywords
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