Archival Significance
Written by Sir Malcolm Watson, the malariologist who pioneered mosquito-control methods in British Malaya before directing the Ross Institute of Tropical Hygiene. His methods informed the malaria-control programmes at Northern Rhodesian Copperbelt mines such as Roan Antelope in the late 1920s, which sharply reduced mortality among mine workers and are credited with helping the Copperbelt become one of Africa’s leading copper-producing regions.
Institutional Context
Published by John Murray, London, with an introduction by Sir Eric Macfadyen.
Content Summary
Documents the campaign against malaria and tropical disease on the Central African Copperbelt.
Research Utility
A primary source for researchers of colonial-era public health, tropical medicine, and the economic history of the Copperbelt, useful alongside later academic reassessments of how mining companies used health provision to manage labour supply.
Abantu Archives Note
Held in-house.