Postwar manpower needs shifted colonial health policy to rural preventive care

Evidence

True to his words, Carde would spend much of his time in office trying to ensure that the production of cash-crop exports and the “production of men” would progress simultaneously. One result was that African health care and nutrition now figured more prominently on the Government General’s agenda. Dakar had always attached special importance to the civilizing impact of public hygiene. But where the emphasis had once been on urban assainissement, it now shifted to preventing disease and lowering mortality rates among the African populations throughout the federation. — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 771

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to reader’s theme that export economics drove medical policy in the republic’s empire.