Catalogue description Hugh Stannus Stannus (1877-1957)

This record is held by London University: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Details of GB 0809 Stannus
Reference: GB 0809 Stannus
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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