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Mombasa bar-girls: a study of prostitution and venereal disease in a Kenya seaport
(1970-03)
Africa in particular East Africa is in a rapid process of remolding herself in attempt to catch up with the rest of the developed world. She is undergoing a process of industrialisation which is accompanied by increasing ...
Causation and prevention of stillbirths and postnatal deaths: Mulago Hospital, 1970-1971
(1973)
The object of this study is to summarise causes of stillbirths and postnatal deaths based on a review board meeting of Obstetricians and Paediatricians in Mulago Hospital, so as to try and prevent these causes in future. ...
Developing methods of evaluation appropriate to undergraduate teaching in general practice at Glasgow University
(University of Glasgow, 1977-04)
The teaching of general practice in the undergraduate medical curriculum now takes place in all medical schools in the United Kingdom. The main expansion has taken place after the Report of the Royal Commission on Medical ...
D-xylose absorption in Ugandan patients with fever
(1973)
Using 25gm oral dose D-xylose tolerance test was performed on 19 normal subjects and 24 subjects with fever. In the normal subjects, blood D-xylose levels showed a peak between one and two hours and then declined gradually ...
The epidemiology of tetanus in Busoga
(1975-02)
During a brief period of 4 weeks in October 1974, a study was conducted about factors associated with the high frequency of TETANUS in Busoga previously reported from analysis of Jinja Hospital records. 36 cases of tetanus ...
A retrospective study of mental illnesses among Makerere University students over the period 1965-1974
(1977-03)
The necessary data for this study was extracted from the student case notes in the student sick bay of Makerere University, the Registrar’s Office of Makerere Main Hall building and from the individual halls of residence. ...
Primary schools' survey: (Kyadondo County, West Buganda, Uganda)
(1973)
Some work has already been done on school health in Uganda. But with the quick pace in scientific research in this field, it’s necessary that field surveys be carried out to focus our attention on the most common problems ...
Risks to tuberculosis among freshers in Makerere University Kampala 1970-1974
(1975-03)
Tuberculosis has been known to physicians and laymen or centuries. It was mentioned by the posts in their writings. It is now known that tuberculosis is a world wide disease. A conservative estimate of the problem by the ...
Immunity to malaria
(1970)
Section I: literature is reviewed and the pattern of the development of immunity in a population exposed to high malarial endemicity is followed. This is followed by a brief discussion of specific aspects of malarial ...
Syphilis in Uganda: (the history, clinical features and cellular immunity
(1971-01)
The history of syphilis in Uganda, the clinical patterns, and the cellular immune mechanisms among the indigenous subjects with syphilis have been studied. Concerning the history it was shown and discussed that the disease ...