The Colonial Medical Service and the struggle for control of the Zanzibar Maternity Association, 1918–47

Here to Heal? The Effect of Colonial Rule on Disease and Health Care in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire: ca. 1900-1955

“…Baumert (2022) econometrically shows that a) geographical areas in Cameroon with a historical presence of health care administered by the colonial governments have a higher density of public health care facilities by 2018, and b) that this relationship is even stronger for current hospitals in areas where the colonial government was solely responsible for the provision of health care (in contrast to areas with supplementary past missionary presence). His findings strengthen the 7 This literature includes the works by Beck (1970), Kjekshus (1977), Nkwam (1988), Lyons (1992), Worboys (1994Worboys ( , 2000a, Iliffe (1998), Crozier (2007), Schneider (2009), Tilley (2011Tilley ( , 2016, Greenwood (2016), and Lowes and Montero (2021). Related to this literature are studies by scholars who consider missionary health care prior to and during colonial rule (see e.g.…”

“…The 1990s and 2000s saw the literature widen to include topics related to colonial medical staff (e.g. Iliffe, 1998;Greenwood, 2016), the colonial response to specific diseases (incl. sleeping sickness, smallpox, and malaria; e.g.…”

“…Elsewhere in Africa, Headrick (1994) studies former French Equatorial Africa, whereas Beck (1970) and Crozier (2007) discuss the development of the British colonial medical services in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. Iliffe (1998) focuses on the development of and changes in East African colonial medical staff, as does Greenwood (2016).…”

“…Studies on British East African countries are performed by Beck (1970) and Crozier (2007), and Nkwam (1988) considers British West Africa. Work by Iliffe (1998) and Greenwood (2016) considers colonial medical staff in East…”