Personal Hygiene for Elementary Schools in Africa 1941 Sanitation Southern Rhodesia Rev. G.E.P. Broderick Missionary Mashonaland Zimbabwe

Title: Personal Hygiene for Elementary Schools in Africa

Author: Rev. G. E. P. Broderick

Description: Second impression (1941). String-bound in card covers. Light soiling on rear cover. Interior is clean and unmarked. 64 pages. 18.5 x 12 cm. Four copies noted on OCLC (Nat. Lib. of Medicine, Bethesda; British Library; Nat. Lib. of Scotland; London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine at Univ. of London).

A guide to personal and household hygiene and sanitation, written for Africans villagers The advice ranges from caring for the body (teeth, skin, ears, etc.), to burying excrement to prevent flies, not drinking from animals' watering-holes, covering food, and keeping the air in the home clean.

At the time this was published, the author, Rev. G. E. P. Broderick, was the priest-in-charge at St. Mary's Mission District, Hunyani, Southern Rhodesia. He was formerly the principal of Swazi National School at Matapa (Swaziland) and of the Domboshawa Government School at Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia.

Binding: Soft Cover
Condition: Very Good

Publisher: United Society for Christian Literature, Lutterworth Press
Place: London and Redhill
Year: 1941

Keywords: Africa, Rhodesia, Southern Rhodesia, Mashonaland, Zimbabwe, medical, Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, missionaries,