444 research outputs found
Letter from Caleb Foote to A. J. Muste, April 1, 1942
No full textLetter to A. J. Muste, likely from Caleb Foote, regarding the possibility of Japanese American families resettle in the Midwestern states. Author describes a recent meeting between Joseph R. Goodman, himself, and Milton Stover Eisenhower, Director of the War Relocation Authority, and correspondence with the president of Antioch College. Author writes "I think the three main question the government will ask in any such plan are 1) are defense industries nearby? 2) what will public reaction be? 3) what are the employment opportunities for the Japanese?" Author also describes situation with curfew in San Francisco: "Typical of what is happening: the other night a Japanese doctor came to the YMCA secretary in San Francisco about 7 o'clock. He had a patient that he need to operate on immediately, but a) he couldn't get a hospital in the city to take the patient, and b) in an hour he had to be back in his house til 6 AM because of the curfew, not matter what happened to the patient during thPersonal correspondence, organizational records, government documents, publications, and other papers created or collected by Joseph R. Goodman documenting the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, as well as organized resistance to incarceration. Included in the collection are records of the Japanese Young Men's Christian Association and the Japanese American Citizens' League in San Francisco, including papers of the Japanese YMCA's executive secretary Lincoln Kanai; Sakai family papers; Goodman's correspondence to and from Japanese American incarcerees, organizations opposing forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans, the War Relocation Authority, and others; publications, photographs, and ephemera from the Topaz Relocation Center, where Goodman taught high school; War Relocation Authority records and publications; and newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and reports about forced removal and incarceration created by various government, religious, and civic organizations, in California and nationwide
Prevalence of trachoma and risk factors for disease in Benue State, Nigeria
Get PDFBackground: Trachoma is a common contagious bacterial eye infection caused by Chlamydia trachomatis serovariants A, B, Ba or C. It is the leading infectious cause of blindness worldwide and is responsible for about 3% of global blindness. World Health Organization (WHO) reports suggest that of the 2.2 million people who have been rendered visually impaired worldwide by trachoma, 1.2 million are irreversibly blind while an additional 7.3 million people are suffering from trachomatous trichiasis (TT) and are at risk of developing blindness. According to WHO 2007 reports, globally about 84 million people suffer from active trachoma while an estimated 299 million people still live in trachoma endemic districts. In order to eliminate trachoma as a public health problem, The Global Trachoma Mapping Project (GTMP) was initiated on 23 July 2012 as a first step in generating population-level prevalence estimates of the disease so as to determine the need for intervention. Between 2013 and 2015, the GTMP mapped suspected endemic districts including Benue state of Nigeria. This current study took advantage of this data to generate prevalence information on Trachomatous inflammation Follicular (TF) and Trichiasis for Benue state and to describe the some of the household risk factors associated with the disease. The thesis is structured in three parts 0(Preamble), A (Protocol), B (Literature Review), C (Article) and D (Appendix).
Methods: A two-stage cluster random sampling technique was utilized in a population based prevalence survey to generate estimates for TF and Trichiasis.
Results: Overall unadjusted prevalence of TF among persons 1-9 years was 2.00% (95% CI: 1.20 – 2.98) and that of trichiasis among persons ≥15 years was 0.11% (95% CI 0.06 – 0.12). Trichiasis was more prevalent among adult women 0.05% (95% CI: 0.03 – 0.07) compared to males 0.03 % (95% CI: 0.02 – 0.05), (p=0.13). LGA-level prevalence of TF and Trichiasis among persons 1-9 years and persons ≥15 years ranged from 0.30% (95% CI: 0.1–0.5) to 5.30% (95% CI: 3.30–7.70) and 0.00% to 0.35% (95% CI: 0.12–0.50) respectively. Two LGAs had trichiasis prevalence above 0.2%. TF prevalence was between 5% and 9.9% in 2 LGAs. The common risk factors identified included age, sex, inaccessibility to water and latrine facility. Adults ≥15 years were 8.94(95%CI: 2.79 – 29.64) times more likely to have trichiasis compared to persons between 1-9 years of age.
Conclusion: Trachoma was found to be a public health problem in 3 LGAs of Benue state. One round of mass antibiotic distribution will be required in 2 LGAs. With an estimated trichiasis backlog of 1,064, about 173 individuals with trichiasis needed to be managed to reduce the prevalence to less than the elimination threshold
Extracapsular cataract extraction with intraocular lens implantation in leprosy and non-leprosy patients: visual outcome and complications
No full textCataract is the leading cause of blindness in leprosy patients. Sight restoration to blind leprosy patients prevents them from injuring their anaesthetic limbs. The visual outcome and complications of extracapsular cataract extraction with intraocular lens implant in 42 leprosy and 91 non-leprosy patients were compared. The mean age of the study population was 57.1 years; that of non-leprosy patients was 57.4 years while that of leprosy patients was 56.5 years. The male to female ratio was 1:1 — in the non-leprosy group, the ratio was 1.2:1 and in the leprosy group it was 1:1.2. The ocular lesions seen before surgery and the complications of surgery were comparable in the two groups of patients. Visual outcome between the two groups was similar — 4.3% of the non-leprosy and 4.8% of the leprosy patients had poor visual outcome. With the introduction of the multidrug therapy, the causes of cataract, complications and short-term visual outcome of extracapsular cataract extraction with intraocular lens implant in leprosy and non-leprosy patients are similar. Nigerian Journal of Ophthalmology Vol. 14(1) 2006: 9-1
Letter from Caleb Foote to Cecilia Shepperd, National Training School, March 23, 1942
No full textLetter from Caleb Foote to Cecilia Shepperd: "Thank you for your letter with its suggestion for taking three Japanese young people in the National Training School. Since A. J. Muste sent out his request, the government has forbid any voluntary evacuation for any Japanese people, so the plan at the moment is in abeyance. Although we are pretty gloomy as to the prospects for any immediate resettlement, we will let you know as soon as anything develops. Thank you for your interest."Personal correspondence, organizational records, government documents, publications, and other papers created or collected by Joseph R. Goodman documenting the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, as well as organized resistance to incarceration. Included in the collection are records of the Japanese Young Men's Christian Association and the Japanese American Citizens' League in San Francisco, including papers of the Japanese YMCA's executive secretary Lincoln Kanai; Sakai family papers; Goodman's correspondence to and from Japanese American incarcerees, organizations opposing forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans, the War Relocation Authority, and others; publications, photographs, and ephemera from the Topaz Relocation Center, where Goodman taught high school; War Relocation Authority records and publications; and newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and reports about forced removal and incarceration created by various government, religious, and civic organizations, in California and nationwide
Indications, output and types of eyelid surgeries in a tertiary eye care facility in northern Nigeria: a review Highland Med Res J 2016;16(1):7-10
No full textERRATUMIndications, output and types of eyelid surgeries in a tertiary eye care facility in northern Nigeria: a review Highland Med Res J 2016;16(1):7-10Ojo P. Odugbo; Caleb D. Mpyet; Patricia D. Wade; Alice V. Ramyil; Mercy O. Adejo
Health System Analysis of Diabetes and Diabetic Retinopathy Services in Nigeria – The Case of Akwa Ibom State
Get PDFThis research project, undertaken for a MPH dissertation investigated and analysed the situation of diabetes and diabetic retinopathy services and management systems in four (4) government hospitals in Akwa Ibom State Nigeria using the World Health Organisation (WHO) Tool for the Assessment of Diabetic Retinopathy and Diabetes Management Systems (TADDS). Part A is the research protocol, which explains the background and the key components of this research study. This is a cross sectional descriptive case study involving primary data collection. We conducted the case study using the WHO TADDS to survey health personnel involved in the management of diabetes mellitus (DM) and diabetic retinopathy (DR) in four (4) government hospitals in Akwa Ibom State. Concurrently, semi-structured interviews were conducted with key informants to investigate and analyse the situation of DM and DR services in Akwa Ibom State in Nigeria. Part B is a structured literature review of published articles, online reports, and summaries related to DR. It covers the review of scientific evidence (clinical overview) about the aetiology and prevention of DR and the known risk factors; the review of epidemiological evidence on DM and DR globally and in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA); and the review of the evidence on effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of public health and health system interventions for the prevention and management of DR. Part C is the journal-ready manuscript. In this part, the format of the journal Ophthalmic Epidemiology was used to present the research project and its main findings. Part D contains all the relevant appendices used during the research project
A letter to the Lay-Expositor, [electronic resource] : concerning his exposition of the orthodox system of civil rights and church power, &c. in which the merits of his system are examined and stated. Truth and Religion, rejected by the Alliance; the supports of a Protestant-Dissent. By the author of The comment on Mr. Warburton's alliance between church and state.
No full textThe author attributed to 'The comment on Mr. Warburton's alliance .. 'is Caleb Fleming.Price from imprint: price Six-Pence.Electronic reproduction.English Short Title Catalog,Reproduction of original from Bodleian Library (Oxford)
Letter from Caleb Foote, Fellowship of Reconciliation, to Friend, April 3, 1942
No full textLetter from Caleb Foote to Fellowship of Reconciliation members. Foote explains he will be traveling to a National Council meeting of the F.O.R. in Cincinnati and is preparing material on the forced removal of Japanese Americans. He asks members for input on what arguments or points should most be stressed: "The violation of civil liberties? The human suffering caused? The analogy to Germany's dealing with a racial problem? The dangerous precedent it sets?" He also asks members to help with the effort to resettle individual Japanese American families in the Midwest under F.O.R. sponsorship. Handwritten note at top of letter: "This is urgent and seminal!"Personal correspondence, organizational records, government documents, publications, and other papers created or collected by Joseph R. Goodman documenting the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, as well as organized resistance to incarceration. Included in the collection are records of the Japanese Young Men's Christian Association and the Japanese American Citizens' League in San Francisco, including papers of the Japanese YMCA's executive secretary Lincoln Kanai; Sakai family papers; Goodman's correspondence to and from Japanese American incarcerees, organizations opposing forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans, the War Relocation Authority, and others; publications, photographs, and ephemera from the Topaz Relocation Center, where Goodman taught high school; War Relocation Authority records and publications; and newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and reports about forced removal and incarceration created by various government, religious, and civic organizations, in California and nationwide
Honour and recognition in the German novel of banditry ca 1800
No full textThis article performs a reading informed by Honneth’s theory of recognition of the two best-known German novels of banditry of the 1790s, Johann Heinrich Zschokke’s Abaellino der große Bandit (1794) and Christian August Vulpius’ Rinaldo Rinaldini (1799) in an effort to understand how popular literature participates in and reflects upon the discourse on honour and recognition around 1800. Its status as popular genre makes the novel of banditry (Räuberroman) a potentially interesting source on shifts in the theory and practice of honour as experienced by ordinary Europeans at the turn of the 19th century. The genre was found to relate to the honour discourse not directly, but in the manner of a heterotopia, simultaneously located outside that discourse and referentially connected to it. Taken in isolation, the novel of banditry is not an informative source on the changing role of honour and new patterns of intersubjective recognition in late 18th century Europe. Seen as part of a particular constellation of textual production and reception, however, the genre sheds light on the aporias of honour experienced by those socially marginal ‘new readers’ intent on exploiting literature in the struggle for enhanced social recognition.Peer reviewe
Daniel Leeds, justly rebuked for abusing William Penn and his foly and falls-hoods [sic] contained in his two printed chalenges [sic] to Caleb Pusey made manifest; with some remarks also by way of rebuke on the author of the book called News of a strumpet. : [Five lines from Psalms]
No full text[6], 28 p.Preface signed on p. [6]: Caleb Pusey
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