Annual report of the Director, Medical & Health Department / Colony of Mauritius.

  • Mauritius. Medical and Health Department
Date:
[1951]
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Credit: Annual report of the Director, Medical & Health Department / Colony of Mauritius. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    During the year under review, visitors from overseas included the Countess of Limerick, O.B.E., vice-chairman of the British Red Cross Society ; Dr. Jean Gaud, of the Institute of Hygiene of Morocco, World Health Organ¬ ization expert on Schistosomiasis ; Mr. C. B. Symes, O.B.E. of the Colonial Insecticides Committee ; and Mr. J. Hamon, Entomologist to the Department of Health, Reunion. Functions of the Department 2. The functions of the Medical and Health Department are:_ (a) to investigate the influence of social, environmental and domestic factors on the incidence of human disease and disability ; (b) to plan and carry out measures for the promotion of health ; (c) to institute and maintain measures for the prevention of disease ; (d) to provide a quarantine service to prevent the introduction of infectious disease by sea or air ; (e) to provide facilities for treatment of disease, including mental disease, by maintenance of hospital and dispensary services ; (f) to make provision for the rehabilitation of the disabled ; (g) to control the practice of medicine, dentistry and pharmacy ; (h) to provide facilities for the training of nurses, midwives and sanitary officers ; (i) to advise local authorities regarding their health services and to inspect those services ; (j) to prepare and publish reports and statistical or other information relating to health.
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