Annual medical and sanitary report / Tanganyika Territory.

  • Tanganyika. Medical Department
Date:
[1926]
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Credit: Annual medical and sanitary report / Tanganyika Territory. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Ordinance No. 18 of 1926. An Ordinance to prescribe the powers and duties of Native Authorities. This Ordinance provides for the declaring and establishing of Native Authorities who are under obligation generally to maintain order and good Government among the natives residing in the areas over which authority extends; and it is incumbent on the natives to assist the Native Authorities in carrying out their duties. Subject to the provisions of any current law the Native Authority is empowered to issue orders to be obeyed by natives with his jurisdiction for, among other purposes, prohibition, restriction or regulating the manufacture, distillation, sale, transport, distribution, supply, possession, and consumption of intoxicating liquors ; preventing the pollution of the water in any stream, watercourse or waterhole, and preventing the obstruction of any stream or watercourse ; preventing the spread of infectious or contagious disease, whether of human beings or animals, and for the care of the sick ; prohibiting, restricting or regulating the immigration of natives from or to the area under his authority ; requiring the birth and death of any native within his jurisdiction to be reported to him or such other person as he may direct; for the purpose of exterminating or preventing the spread of tsetse fly ; requiring any native to cultivate land to such extent and with such crops as will secure an adequate supply of food for the support of such native and of those dependent on him ; for any other purpose, which may, by notice published in the Gazette, be specially sanctioned by the Governor, either generally or for any particular area. (c) Financial. Revenue Expenditure (See also Table II, page 138) £8,959 £169,355 II. PUBLIC HEALTH. (a) General Remarks. This is the seventh Annual Medical Report of the Medical and Sanitation Depart¬ ment of the Tanganyika Territory and despite the fact that 1926 was the second consecutive season of abnormal rainfall, which naturally resulted in inflation of the returns for Malaria and Blackwater Fever, the general public health has been well main¬ tained. The spheres of medical activity have been extended in several directions, the most outstanding feature of which has been the development of a subordinate African Medical and Sanitation Service. Apart entirely from the question of finance it is evident that a service of this nature is absolutely essential if adequate aid is to be available to the population as a whole, for it would be well nigh impossible for European staff to live and work for any lengthy period under the adverse climatic conditions and isolation inseparable from the remoter areas, which to the African is his normal habitat. To meet these contingencies the bases of certain organisations have now been definitely established, viz. :— African District Dispensers. African District Sanitary Inspectors. Maternity and Child Welfare Clinics. Tribal Dressers. African District Dispensers.—Until two years ago the African District Dispenser was recruited, chiefly, from amongst applicants trained at the medical schools of Blantyre and Livingstonia in Nyasaland. They were employed at small stationary dispensaries, and for itinerant clinics in connection with the labour forces employed on road con¬ struction and our campaign against yaws and specific disease.
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