Hugh Stannus Stannus

The collection includes:

• Glass plate negatives, 1905-c.1918 with contact prints
• Miscellaneous loose papers, 1957

Hugh Stannus Stannus, consulting physician and specialist in tropical diseases was appointed Medical Officer to the King’s African rifles in British Central Africa [Malawi], in 1905 and carried out research into various tropical diseases particularly pellagra and sleeping sickness. He made an intense study of anthropology and ethnology and published a monograph on the Wa-Yao people. He was elected FRCP in 1931. In 1914 he became principal medical officer of the Nyasa-Rhodesian forces operating in Southern German East Africa [Tanganiyka (Tanzania)].

Records are arranged within series. The collection consists mainly of glass negatives, undated and mainly unidentified but presumably taken during Stannus’ stay in Africa, 1905-c.1918. A few index notes to the collection are included but as the negatives were originally unnumbered and apparently out of order in most cases, it has not been possible to relate them to the notes.

Open for consultation subject to preservation requirements. Access must also conform to the restrictions of the Data Protection Act and any other appropriate legislation.

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No known copies.

The records are on paper and glass, and include photographs.

Fonds level description compiled by Sarah Chubb, Archives Hub Project Archivist, October 2001.

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None expected.

Notes relating to peoples of Nyasaland by Hugh Stannus Stannus, 1927, are held at the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Rhodes House Library holds correpondence, papers and photographs MSS.Afr.s.476-485.

The material is original.

Michael Gelfland Lakeside Pioneers: Socio-Medical study of Nyasaland (1875-1920), Oxford, 1964.