Ashton, Dr L. P.: report on smallpox epidemic in Nyanza Province, Kenya, 1945

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0120 GC/195
Held at	: Wellcome Library   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://wellcomelibrary.org/ ›
Full title	: Ashton, Dr L. P.: report on smallpox epidemic in Nyanza Province, Kenya, 1945
Date(s)	: 1945
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 file, 1 packet
Name of creator(s)	: Ashton | Leigh Perry | 1908-2000 | medical missionary
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

Dr Leigh Perry Ashton (b 1908) qualified in medicine at Bristol in 1931 and worked as a medical missionary in Kenya from 1934 until 1964, apart from Second World War service with the King's African Rifles. In September 1945 he was Medical Officer at Maseno Church Missionary Society Hospital in western Kenya, where he treated 244 cases of smallpox in three months. This report records his observations and conclusions.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Report on smallpox epidemic in Nyanza Province, autumn 1945, 'Review of variola major epidemic in Nyanza Province, Kenya', by Dr Ashton of the Church Missionary Society Hospital, Maseno, with 12 photographs of patients.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

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Conditions governing access:

The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Photocopies/photographs/microfilm are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds, and that photographs cannot be photocopied in any circumstances. Readers are restricted to 100 photocopies in twelve months. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.

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Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

This material was given to the Wellcome Library in September 1996 by Dr. Ashton via his daughter, Ms Ruth Ashton.

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Copied from the Wellcome Library catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions:
In compliance with ISAD (G): General International Standard Archival Description - 2nd Edition (1999); UNESCO Thesaurus, December 2001; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Feb 2009