Affiliation:
1. Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex, Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology , P.M.B 5538, Ile-Ife , Nigeria
Abstract
Abstract
Oguntola Odunbaku Sapara Williams (born Alexander Johnson Williams, 1861–1935) was a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Public Health. This paper attempts to highlight the effort of an African doctor to fight disease outbreaks during the African colonial era. His uninterrupted 32 years career as a colonial medical officer in one of the British colonies in West Africa, provided superintendence for the eradication of smallpox as a result of this, he was credited with the demystification of metaphysical involvement in the smallpox epidemic and thus eradication of smallpox in the Lagos colony. He also provided leadership for the control of bubonic plague, and tuberculosis epidemics and pioneered initiatives to reduce maternal and infant mortality by vaccination, enactment of public health law, environmental sanitation, and health education in Southwest Nigeria.
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Subject
Genetics,Molecular Biology,Microbiology
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