Annual report of the Public Health Department / Zanzibar Protectorate.

  • Zanzibar. Public Health Department.
Date:
[1920]
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Credit: Annual report of the Public Health Department / Zanzibar Protectorate. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    There was a considerable epidemic of whooping cough in the Chake Chake district, which resulted in several deaths. A small epidemic of varicella occurred in the Ole district, chiefly in the village of Vikongoni. As is usual out here, the disease took on a severe form, but there were no fatalities. Measles was prevalent in the autumn, especially in the Weti district. Bacillary Dysentery- A small outbreak of this disease occurred in February. It did not spread widely, but three locally contracted cases occurred in bed-ridden patients in the hospital. There was no fatality. Sporadic and generally chronic cases of amoebic dysentery are encountered from time to time in the routine examination of stools, six such cases being recorded during the year. As has been mentioned in previous health reports, there seems to be a most noticeable absence of diarrhoea] diseases throughout the is!and, and only 4<i cases of diarrhoea are recorded amongst 12.118 new out-patients. ■ rent ral Sun)i a< y Measures. 1 he difficulties m connection with vaccination owing to the absence of an ice machine and the consequent impossibility of maintaining an active supply of lymph, at any rate during the hotter weather, were mentioned in last year’s report. J In view of the threatened introduction of small pox an arm-to- arm vaccination campaign was begun at the end of 1919 glycerin- ated human lymph being employed. There were 1,670 vaccinations ca™ out m the Chake district at the end of 1919 and 1.279 early It was hoped that it would be possible to carry out systematic vaccination m the other districts of the island duriS the weather m June and July, when ordinary calf lymph if brought on ice from Zanzibar and stored in banana stalks, would presifm abiy keep active for two or three weeks, but it was not found Possible o spare the travelling vaccination from Zanzibar. It js mucb to ?he S' .SSta ofS”* wm heorglnised •»« out during were examined at Chake Chake Customs 22 nt tu!! ' by how, %£££!”,h' ..— « ,he ”“isa“
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