"The Sarikin Zongo was persuaded to remove horses from compounds and living rooms in the infected area, first into neighbouring lanes and open spaces and, finally to a large open space at some distance from houses. The Sarikin was further persuaded to bui
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Unknown author "The Sarikin Zongo was persuaded to remove horses from compounds and living rooms in the infected area, first into neighbouring lanes and open spaces and, finally to a large open space at some distance from houses. The Sarikin was further persuaded to bui [digital image]. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/282627
Located in the British colony of the Gold Coast (today's Ghana) the Ashanti capital of Kumasi was struck by plague in June 1924, taking both bubonic and pneumonic clinical forms. The disease possibly arrived in the inland city via railway-borne rats. The usual counter-epidemic measures of quarantine, isolation, vaccination and disinfection were accompanied by a wide-spread campaign against rats, which were by then being targeted across the globe as a host of the disease.
Plague, Horse, Stable, Ghana, Kumasi
Ghana, Kumasi
Host Item: P. S. Selwyn-Clarke, Report on the outbreak of plague in Kumasi, Ashanti (Accra: Government Printing Department, 1925)
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