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Catalogue description Hugh Stannus Stannus (1877-1957)
This record is held by London University: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
| Reference: | GB 0809 Stannus |
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| Title: | Hugh Stannus Stannus (1877-1957) |
| Description: |
Includes a collection of glass plate negatives from work in Africa studying scarification and tattooing (see Stannus/04 for published work on this). In addition there are two sets of blood slides as well as the paper on scarification. |
| Date: | 1905-1940 |
| Held by: | London University: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, not available at The National Archives |
| Legal status: | Not Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Stannus Hugh Stannus 1877-1957 Physician Major |
| Physical description: | 3 boxes and 1 item |
| Access conditions: |
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| Administrative / biographical background: |
Hugh Stannus Stannus, consulting physician and specialist in tropical diseases was appointed Medical Officer to the King's African rifles in British Central Africa [Malawi] in 1905 and carried out research into various tropical diseases particularly pellagra and sleeping sickness. He made an intense study of anthropology and ethnology and published a monograph on the Wa-Yao people. He was elected FRCP in 1931. In 1914 he became principal medical officer of the Nyasa-Rhodesian forces operating in Southern German East Africa (Tanzania). |
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