PMID: 11624427Oct 20, 2001Paper

The Ceylon malaria epidemic of 1934-35: a case study in colonial medicine

Social History of Medicine : the Journal of the Society for the Social History of Medicine
M Jones

Abstract

In 1934-35 Ceylon suffered a major malaria epidemic which affected one and a half million people out of a population of five and a half million. This paper will first examine the orgins and course of the epidemic but the main focus is on the measures the authorities adopted to deal with the disaster. In 1931 Ceylon had attained 'home rule' under the Donoughmore Constitution. The epidemic was a first and major test of the efficacy of the new government. Examining the responses of the imperial government, the colonial government and the colonial medical services to this medical emergency establishes that the epidemic was a turning point in the health services of Ceylon and thus Sri Lanka, that the legacy of colonial medicine is essentially mixed and that the complexity and contradictory nature of colonial medicine can only be understood by detailed contextual research.

Citations

Apr 29, 2015·Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene·G Dennis Shanks
Sep 25, 2003·The Journal of Experimental Biology·Andrew Spielman

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