Figures
- 1 Total inpatients 33
- 2 Average number of patients present 34
- 3 Percentage of inpatients from ‘maisons’ 35
- 4 Gender ratio of inpatients 35
- 5 Surgeries at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital 81
- 6 Surgeries in colonial Gabon 85
- 7 Deliveries at government clinics in Gabon 125
- 8 Deliveries at Lambaréné government hospital 125
- 9 Deliveries at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital 125
- 10 Gender ratio of inpatients at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital 126
- 11 Patients diagnosed with dysentery 191
- 12 Dysentery cases related to total entries 191
- 13 Dysentery treatment, July 1928 to May 1929 199
- 14 Development of dysentery treatment 199
Maps
- 1 The location of Gunsbach and Lambaréné 3
- 2 Gunsbach in France 4
- 3 Lambaréné in Gabon 4
- 4 The Albert Schweitzer Hospital in 1954 70
Illustrations
- 1 The former chicken coop at the mission station in Andendé, undated. © Archives Centrales Albert Schweitzer Gunsbach 29
- 2 The ruinous hospital in April 1924. © Archives Centrales Albert Schweitzer Gunsbach 30
- 3 The ‘appels mensuels’, ca. 1950. © Archives Centrales Albert Schweitzer Gunsbach 32
- 4 A page of the appels mensuels of 1 March 1936. © Archives Centrales Albert Schweitzer Gunsbach 33
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5 Patients and gardiens at the landing area during rainy season, late 1940s. © Archives Centrales Albert Schweitzer Gunsbach 37 - 6 The hospital’s ‘main road’ with the ‘Grande Pharmacie’, mid-1950s. © Archives Centrales Albert Schweitzer Gunsbach 38
- 7 Patients at the consultation space, mid-1950s. © Archives Centrales Albert Schweitzer Gunsbach 39
- 8 Patients or gardiens collecting their ration of food, mid-1950s. © Archives Centrales Albert Schweitzer Gunsbach 41
- 9 Patients or gardiens cooking their meals behind the sleeping quarters, mid-1950s. © Archives Centrales Albert Schweitzer Gunsbach 42
- 10 Operation protocols of January 1927. © Archives Centrales Albert Schweitzer Gunsbach 81
- 11 The quarters for freshly operated patients directly after their opening in 1927. © Archives Centrales Albert Schweitzer Gunsbach 87
- 12 The same quarters, now called ‘Case Bouka’, at a later date. © Archives Centrales Albert Schweitzer Gunsbach 88
- 13 The nurse M. Lagendijk, P. Piebé, and two doctors during an operation, ca. 1950. © Archives Centrales Albert Schweitzer Gunsbach 93
- 14 Pierre Piebé and Dr. Arnold Brack disinfect their hands, ca. 1947. © Archives Centrales Albert Schweitzer Gunsbach 99
- 15 Sterilizing surgical instruments, probably late 1930s. © Archives Centrales Albert Schweitzer Gunsbach 102
- 16 The operation room and two assistants in 1940. © Archives Centrales Albert Schweitzer Gunsbach 117
- 17 The operation room in 2015 (photograph by Hubert Steinke) 117
- 18 Staff in front of the hospital’s maternity ward, ca. 1934. © Archives Centrales Albert Schweitzer Gunsbach 129
- 19 The ‘Pouponnière’, 1935. © Archives Centrales Albert Schweitzer Gunsbach 133
- 20 Suzanne Awo and unidentified nurses or parents feeding children, mid-1950s. © Archives Centrales Albert Schweitzer Gunsbach 135
- 21 Accommodation for babies, undated. © Archives Centrales Albert Schweitzer Gunsbach 140
- 22 Another accommodation for babies, also undated. © Archives Centrales Albert Schweitzer Gunsbach 141
- 23 Delivery protocols of August and September 1938. © Archives Centrales Albert Schweitzer Gunsbach 148
- 24 The nurse Irmgard Zinser has at least two babies in her room, ca. 1951. © Archives Centrales Albert Schweitzer Gunsbach 157
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25 A mother with her baby in her bed, undated. © Archives Centrales Albert Schweitzer Gunsbach 158 - 26 One of the very few pictures of a mother breast-feeding, undated. © Archives Centrales Albert Schweitzer Gunsbach 163
- 27 Gertrude Koch bottle-feeding, a father (?) watching, ca. 1950. © Archives Centrales Albert Schweitzer Gunsbach 165
- 28 The hospital’s isolation hut, early 1930s. © Archives Centrales Albert Schweitzer Gunsbach 178
- 29 One of the huts in the first leprosy settlements, ca. 1950. © Archives Centrales Albert Schweitzer Gunsbach 181
- 30 The ‘village lumière’, ca. 1960. © Archives Centrales Albert Schweitzer Gunsbach 182
- 31 A pump at the hospital, undated. © Archives Centrales Albert Schweitzer Gunsbach 189
- 32 Another pump at the hospital, also undated. © Archives Centrales Albert Schweitzer Gunsbach 190
- 33 Patients queuing in front of the ‘Grande Pharmacie’, possibly for drugs, mid-1950s. © Archives Centrales Albert Schweitzer Gunsbach 192
- 34 Inside the ‘Grande Pharmacie’ during the distribution of medication, mid-1950s. © Archives Centrales Albert Schweitzer Gunsbach 193
- 35 Patients receiving their medication, mid-1930s. © Archives Centrales Albert Schweitzer Gunsbach 194
- 36 Schweitzer’s notebook with the seven different treatments for dysentery, 1934. © Archives Centrales Albert Schweitzer Gunsbach 203
- 37 From the Leprosan trials; list of drugs that a patient had received, 1958. © Archives Centrales Albert Schweitzer Gunsbach 210
- 38 Richard Friedmann and a patient, late 1950s. © Archives Centrales Albert Schweitzer Gunsbach 225
- 39 Jean Mendoume in front of the psychiatric ward, ca. 1934. © Archives Centrales Albert Schweitzer Gunsbach 240
- 40 Emma Haussknecht and laborers in the vegetable garden, ca. 1950. © Archives Centrales Albert Schweitzer Gunsbach 241
- 41 Watering the garden, ca. 1958. © Archives Centrales Albert Schweitzer Gunsbach 242
- 42 The vegetable garden and two workers, undated. © Archives Centrales Albert Schweitzer Gunsbach 242
- 43 The psychiatric ward, 1931. © Archives Centrales Albert Schweitzer Gunsbach 249
- 44 The carpenter Erwin Mathis, early 1950s. © Archives Centrales Albert Schweitzer Gunsbach 250
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45 Njambi, an unidentified nurse, and a sleeping sickness patient, early 1930s. © Archives Centrales Albert Schweitzer Gunsbach 253
Tables
- 1 The growth of the hospital 63
- 2 Problematic deliveries 147
- 3 Cesareans as a percentage of total deliveries 153