| Title: | The 1971 cholera epidemic in Zaria, Nigeria |
| Author: | Schram, R. |
| Year: | 1972 |
| Periodical: | Savanna: A Journal of the Environmental and Social Sciences |
| Volume: | 1 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Pages: | 213-222 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Northern Nigeria |
| Subject: | cholera |
| Abstract: | A brief review of cholera in West Africa in 1970 and 1971 is given, and the results of a study of 200 consecutive cases admitted to the Zaria University Hospital in that time. Investigated are: location of cases, treatment, age and sex, overcrowding, immunisation, water sources and occupations. Map, tables. |
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