History of the Colonial Copperbelt Malaria Control Programme in Zambia, 1920-1950. (360G-Wellcome-081526_Z_06_Z)

History of the Colonial Copperbelt Malaria Control Programme in Zambia, 1920-1950 The book length project reconsiders the seminal event in the development of mining on Zambia's Copperbelt, an event that also played a key role in the history of tropical medicine and its uses for industry - the Ross Institute Expedition to the Copperbelt in 1929. On the advice of the Expedition's experts, including William Simpson and Malcolm Watson, mine managers began a sanitation campaign against malaria, dysentery and other diseases. Malaria control proved to be highly successful in this case. I am examining the reasons for the success of the programme, its relevance to today's malaria control efforts in Africa and its interpretation by African miners, mosquito control workers and inhabitants of the Copperbelt. The resulting book, Snake Spirits and Garden Cities: The Moral Economy of Malaria in Colonial Zambia, 1920-1960 requires follow-up work in Zambian archives for its completion.