Annual medical & sanitary report for the year ended.

  • Nyasaland. Medical and Sanitary Services
Date:
[1942]
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Credit: Annual medical & sanitary report for the year ended. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    7. The European and African civil hospitals have catered for the military personnel requiring hospitalisation. 8. Under the Defence Regulations of 1939, a Quinine Order, 1942 was passed, to safeguard the stock of this drug in the Protectorate. 9. To protect the country, Government by Proclamation No. 1 of 1942, introduced special defence measures against Yellow Fever, which has been showing disquietening activity in adjoining territories. These measures include protective inoculation of persons, employed at, and about aerodromes, and the provision of disinfestation of planes on arrival. . 10. A lymph laboratory was opened at Zomba during the year. The Pathologist is now manufacturing lymph. Previously the lymph was imported , from Tanganyika at a much higher cost. 11. Extensions and improvements were carried out at. the three European hospitals, Zomba, Blantyre and Lilongwe. Extensions are now also under construction at the native hospitals of Lilongwe, Ncheu and Kota-Kota. 12. During the year, the medical department hag given considerable help , to various recruiting habituation camps by seconding hospital and sanitary assistants and sometimes a part time medical officer or sub-assistant surgeon until the Army could supply their own medical officers. Nutrition Unit. \ « 13. In spite of its depletion of staff and many set backs, this unit continued to function under the supervision of the District Commissioner, Kota-Kota, with Miss Barker as Nutritional Investigator, an Agricultural Supervisor and a District Medical Officer. Dr. W, T. C. Berry, the medical officer of the unit continued his observations on the causation of Tropical Ulcers. Miss Barker has made a comprehensive survey of various districts in the Protectorate investigating the native foods in relation to the various tribes. B. GENERAL DISEASES. 14. During the year, 468 patients (402 civil and 66 army) were treated in Government European hospitals and 20,624 in Government African hospitals. 15. 1,766 Europeans and 163,077 Africans were treated as out-patients at ^ Government hospitals. 16. 460,193 Africans were treated at Government rural dispensaries of which. 279,269 were males and 180,924 were females. The corresponding figure in 1941 wras 418,756 inclusive. 17. There were 969 operations performed at the Zomba African hospital. The operations performed at Zomba and Blantyre European hospitals numbered 59 and 64 respectively. Operations are also conducted in most of the district African hospitals.
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