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Household Sanitary Inspection, Mosquito Control and Domestic Hygiene in the Gold Coast [Ghana] from the Late-Nineteenth to the Mid-Twentieth Century

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dc.contributor.author Amoako-Gyampah A.K.
dc.date.accessioned 2022-10-31T15:05:02Z
dc.date.available 2022-10-31T15:05:02Z
dc.date.issued 2022
dc.identifier.issn 0951631X
dc.identifier.other 10.1093/shm/hkab050
dc.identifier.uri http://41.74.91.244:8080/handle/123456789/191
dc.description Amoako-Gyampah, A.K., Department of History Education, University of Education, Winneba, Ghana, Department of History, University of Johannesburg, South Africa en_US
dc.description.abstract Mosquito control was the focus of many public health interventions in the Gold Coast because during the colonial period, malaria and other mosquito-borne diseases remained a leading cause of European and African morbidity and mortality. Tagging along with theories of racial ecology that portrayed Africans and their surroundings as the nidus of infection, and therefore, perceiving African homes as a source of danger, colonial officials targeted the fight against mosquito at African households and surroundings. Sanitary inspectors were deployed to African households to search, prosecute and fine householders whose environment harboured larvae. By examining the connection between household sanitary inspection, mosquito control and domestic hygiene, this article demonstrates how sanitary inspection was not limited to finding larvae. Instead, it became a tool for checking general cleanliness in African households, and therefore, provided the colonial administration, the means to regulate, and manipulate African habits and practices in the domestic sphere. � The Author(s) 2021 en_US
dc.publisher Oxford University Press en_US
dc.subject domestic hygiene en_US
dc.subject Gold Coast en_US
dc.subject malaria en_US
dc.subject mosquito control en_US
dc.subject sanitary inspection en_US
dc.subject yellow fever en_US
dc.title Household Sanitary Inspection, Mosquito Control and Domestic Hygiene in the Gold Coast [Ghana] from the Late-Nineteenth to the Mid-Twentieth Century en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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