Template:Did you know nominations/Katharine Cook


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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 23:47, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

Katharine Cook

 * ... that in the 1910s medical missionary Katharine Timpson Cook and her husband mistook yaws for syphilis and concluded that there was an epidemic of sexually transmitted disease in Uganda? Source: "the linkage between syphilis and immorality was present in missionary publications from the earliest observations of syphilis in  Uganda, despite the frequent confusion of syphilis with yaws, a related disease transmitted by casual contact" https://www.jstor.org/stable/3174573
 * ALT1:... that Katharine Timpson Cook established training programmes for midwives in Namirembe from 1918 but distrusted her students and censored their mail? Source: "Katherine Timpson Cook habitually censored the mail of students midwives at the MTS, weeding any letter that she saw as a "direct incitement to immorality"
 * Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Noelle Sandwith

Converted from a redirect by Zeromonk (talk). Self-nominated at 08:22, 28 March 2019 (UTC).




 * Pending a response from the with regard to the main hook, I am approving the ALT1 hook.Symbol confirmed.svg--  Farang Rak Tham   (Talk) 21:30, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
 * sorry for the slow reply, have been travelling with work - can't get at all of my books to check the first hook at the moment so please do go with second! Zeromonk (talk) 11:02, 9 April 2019 (UTC)