Oguntola Odunbaku Sapara Williams (born Alexander Johnson Williams, 1861–1935) was a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Public Health. This paper attempts to highlight the effort of an African doctor to fight disease outbreaks during the African colonial era. His uninterrupted 32 years career as a colonial medical officer in one of the British colonies in West Africa, provided superintendence for the eradication of smallpox as a result of this, he was credited with the demystification of metaphysical involvement in the smallpox epidemic and thus eradication of smallpox in the Lagos colony. He also provided leadership for the control of bubonic plague, and tuberculosis epidemics and pioneered initiatives to reduce maternal and infant mortality by vaccination, enactment of public health law, environmental sanitation, and health education in South-west Nigeria.

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免得我们忘记：奥顿巴库·奥贡托纳·萨帕拉·威廉 (1895-1935) 超越神性的神秘化

奥贡托拉·奥顿巴库·萨帕拉·威廉姆斯（Oguntola Odunbaku Sapara Williams，原名亚历山大·约翰逊·威廉姆斯，1861-1935 年）是英国皇家公共卫生研究所的研究员。本文试图强调非洲殖民时代非洲医生为抗击疾病爆发所做的努力。他在西非英国殖民地之一担任殖民地医务官，不间断地从事了 32 年的职业生涯，为消灭天花提供了监督，因此，他被认为揭开了天花流行病的形而上学的神秘面纱，从而消灭了天花。拉各斯殖民地的天花。他还领导控制鼠疫和结核病流行，并率先在尼日利亚西南部通过疫苗接种、颁布公共卫生法、环境卫生和健康教育来降低孕产妇和婴儿死亡率。