Ayos

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Ayos
Commune and town
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Ayos
Location in Cameroon
Coordinates: 3°54′25″N12°31′38″E / 3.90694°N 12.52722°E / 3.90694; 12.52722 Coordinates: 3°54′25″N12°31′38″E / 3.90694°N 12.52722°E / 3.90694; 12.52722
CountryFlag of Cameroon.svg  Cameroon
Region Centre Region
Department Nyong et Mfoumou
Population
 (2005) [1]
 • Total22,899
Time zone UTC+1 (WAT)

Ayos is a town and commune in the department of Nyong-et-Mfoumou Centre region of Cameroon. [2]

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The district is noted for its place in the history of medicine: the 1920s saw the establishment of a medical center managed by the French doctor Eugène Jamot, famed as the person who cured sleeping sickness. [3]

Geography

Ayos Bus station Gare routiere d'Ayos.jpg
Ayos Bus station

Ayos town, with a population in 2005 of 8653, [1] is located near the right bank of the river Nyong, at the confluence of the Nyong and Long-Mafog. It is crossed by the national Yaoundé-Bertoua road, route N10, 139 km east of the capital Yaoundé, and 42 km north-east of the prefecture Akonolinga.

Ayos town was officially decreed the principal town of its district from 1 February 1924 (with a further decree to the same effect on 7 May 1946, and was raised to the status of a commune in June 1964. [4]

History

From the beginning of the twentieth century, the shores of Haut-Nyong were reported as an epicentre of sleeping sickness: in 1901 a German officer, Captain Von Stein, pointed out for the first time an outbreak of trypanosomiasis east of Atok, on the upper Nyong river. [5] In January 1913, the German doctor Philalethes Kuhn established the first Western medical establishment in Ayos. The 1920s saw new sanitary facilities constituting the logistical and scientific basis for the sleeping sickness control program led by the French military doctor Eugène Jamot, installed in Ayos in 1922, succeeding Dr Jojot. [6] On 8 April 1926, a ministerial decreed established Jamot as the director of a mission to cure sleeping sickness, and at the end of 1926 the Centre d’Instruction d'Ayos was established under the direction of Doctor de Marqueissac. Between 1926 and 1931, the scourge of sleeping sickness was overcome in Cameroon. However, it is then recommended to continue the effort by financial means, sufficient staff and administrative autonomy. [7]

Organisation

Besides Ayos and its districts, the commune includes the following villages: [1]

People born in Ayos

See also

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Troisième recensement général de la population et de l'habitat (3rd RGPH, 2005), Bureau central des recensements et des études de population du Cameroun (BUCREP), 2010.
  2. ↑ Mah, E.P. (2014). La profession d'huissier de justice au Cameroun francophone. Harmattan Cameroun (in French). Editions L'Harmattan. p. 38. ISBN   978-2-336-33787-6 . Retrieved 26 July 2018.
  3. ↑ Léon Lapeyssonnie, Moi, Jamot, Le Vainqueur de la Maladie du Sommeil , Louis Musin edition, INAM Press, 1987 ISBN   978-2870830291.
  4. ↑ Décret N° 64/DF/220 du 20 juin 1964
  5. ↑ Camerlex, Ayos en bref (3 February 2011).
  6. ↑ IRD Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Ayos, ville médicale et lieu de mémoire Archived 6 February 2020 at the Wayback Machine , 17 June 2013.
  7. ↑ IRD - Sleeping Sickness, .htm Biographie Jamot (1879-1937) , (accessed 2018)

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