Firestone Plantations Company

Liberia and Firestone; the development of a rubber industry, a story of friendship and progress by Firestone Plantations Company ( Book )
3 editions published between 1955 and 1956 in English and held by 45 libraries worldwide

The evergreen forests of Liberia; a report on investigations made in the West African republic of Liberia by the Yale University School of Forestry in cooperation with the Firestone Plantations Company by George Proctor Cooper ( Book )
2 editions published in 1931 in English and held by 43 libraries worldwide

Views in Liberia by Firestone Plantations Company ( Book )
1 edition published in 1937 in English and held by 7 libraries worldwide

Firestone Plantations Harbel group, Liberia by Firestone Plantations Company ( )
5 editions published between 1950 and 1965 in English and held by 4 libraries worldwide

Medicine in the tropics ( Visual )
2 editions published between 1948 and 1957 in English and held by 1 library worldwide
The medical problems and medical care of the workers on the Firestone Rubber Company rubber plantations in Liberia are discussed over appropriate footage. The most common diseases in this region are schistosomiasis, the malarias, yaws, goitre, intestinal worms, the dysenteries, the filariases, traumatic injuries, and pulmonary, bone, and skin diseases. Smallpox is the most common of the infectious diseases. Spraying, ditching, and cutting back vegetation are done in an attempt to limit the habitat of the pathogens and vectors. Latrines are inspected. The people are immunized against smallpox. In heavily populated areas, water is impounded, filtered, and chlorinated. Trained medical orderlies work in the plantation clinics, giving first aid, caring for minor ailments, making mass survey of diseases such as sleeping sickness. Acutely ill patients are taken to the plantation hospital, to be cared for by an American doctor and trained hospital and laboratory staff. Shots include: African natives in village, stream, and field activities; Liberian landscapes and rubber plantations; outdoor clinic activities; the plantation hospital exterior, outpatient department with American doctor examining a patient, the surgical ward, a technician taking a blood sample, the hospital laboratory, the X-ray room, the operating room, patients convalescing outdoors, the plantation isolation hospital, three cases of smallpox, elephantoid scrotum, unilateral gynomastia, testing for trypanosomiasis, open drop anesthesia; Harvey S. Firestone, Sr. and Jr.

The Kpelle language in Liberia : grammatical outline colloquial sentences and vocabulary by D Westermann ( Book )
1 edition published in 1974 in English and held by 1 library worldwide

Views in Liberia ( Book )
1 edition published in 1937 in English and held by 1 library worldwide

Liberia by C. B Calvin ( )
1 edition published in 1943 in English and held by 1 library worldwide

Plantation rubber : Hevea brasiliensis by William L Vass ( Book )
1 edition published in 1956 in English and held by 1 library worldwide