Colonial Public Health Service in Ilorin Province, 1900 to 1960.

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dc.contributor.authorOnagun, Rasheed
dc.contributor.authorApepoju, Adewale
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-07T14:49:39Z
dc.date.available2024-02-07T14:49:39Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstract-translatedThe paper examines the measures put in place by the British colonial government towards safeguarding the health and wellbeing of people, and thereby guaranteeing an enabling environment for surplus human and natural resources maximization. The study explores oral testimonies, extant literature, and colonial archival documents to juxtapose the extent of the impact of the colonial health programmes on Ilorin province between 1900 and 1960. The traditional medical and religion practices of the natives were discerned as impediments to good health and smooth transmission of colonial ideologies. Campaigns and instrument of the law were promulgated to frustrate African traditional values and unhealthy lifestyles perceived as obstruction to the colonial public health programmes. The traditional rulers and sanitary inspectors were engaged and empowered to prosecute erring violators of public health ordinances promulgated to cinch the wellbeing of Europeans, the colonial civil servants, and the natives. Shortage of personnel and the quest for efficient resource management prompted the British colonial masters to administer hospital care extensively through the Christian missionary medical facilities. The few British health officials with some trained natives directly served as sanitary supervisors and medical field units and administered the colonial public health programmes. Their efforts, activities, and control measures such as health campaign and education, medical examination, mass vaccination, sanitary and hygiene supervision and monitoring, and provision of public works and amenities promoted the good health of the people and curtailed the extent of epidemic diseases.en
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dc.identifier.citationWest Bohemian Historical Review. 2023, no. 2, p. 177-202.en
dc.identifier.issn1804-5480
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11025/55281
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherZápadočeská univerzita v Plznics
dc.rights© Západočeská univerzita v Plznics
dc.rights.accessopenAccessen
dc.subjectepidemiecs
dc.subjectnemocecs
dc.subjectkanalizacecs
dc.subjectprovincie Ilorincs
dc.subjectkolonialismuscs
dc.subject.translatedepidemicsen
dc.subject.translateddiseasesen
dc.subject.translatedsanitationen
dc.subject.translatedIlorin Provinceen
dc.subject.translatedcolonialismen
dc.titleColonial Public Health Service in Ilorin Province, 1900 to 1960.en
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dc.typearticleen
dc.type.statusPeer revieweden
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen

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