First report / Yellow Fever Commission (West Africa).

  • Yellow Fever Commission (West Africa)
Date:
[1913?]
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    (3) To present reports, from time to time, and a final report; such reports to be submitted to the Advisory Medical and Sanitary- Committee for Tropical Africa, for transmission to the Secretary of State. Object of Enquiry.—They recommend that the object of the enquiry should be defined as to study the nature and the relative frequency of the fevers occurring among Europeans, natives and others in West Africa, especially with regard to Yellow Fever and other non-malarial fevers in that country. Problems for Investigators.—In the opinion of the Sub-Committee, the following are some of the problems to which the attention of those engaged in the work of the Commission in this country and elsewhere should be specially directed :— 1. The nature of the disease which during the years 1910-11-12 has been locally diagnosed as Yellow Fever, and which has been the cause of a heavy case mortality. 2. Was it probably the same disease which is recorded in literature under the name of Yellow Fever as having occurred from time to time in the West African Colonies ? 3. If this disease was not Yellow Fever was it {a) some other recognised disease, or {b) a disease of unknown nature ? 4. What fevers are known to occur at the present day in epidemic form amongst {a) Europeans, [h) other non-natives, [c) natives in West Africa ? 5. What is the clinical course, probable pathology, and mode of infection, in such fevers ? 6. What is the probable nature of the fevers which have been termed :— (a) bilious remittent fever, ip) malignant bilious remittent fever, [c] inflarpmatory, endemial, or acclimatising fever, {d) hyperpyrexial fever, {i) three days' fever, [f) seven days' fever, {g) low fever, {h) febricula ?