Annual report of the Department of Public Health / Union of South Africa.

  • South Africa. Department of Health
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[1931]
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Credit: Annual report of the Department of Public Health / Union of South Africa. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE I. Introductory... 5 II. Vital Statistics... 6 III. Administrative Matters. 1. Staff (with chart). 7 2. Council of Public Health. 8 3. Legislation affecting Public Health. ]f) 4. District Surgeons. 10 5. Local Authorities and their Health Staffs. 10 IV. Work oe the Department. 1. Inspections, Investigations and Field Work..... 12 2. Addresses and Published Papers by Members of the Staff. 13 3. Health Publicity and Educative Work. 13 4. Laboratories and Medical Research.'.. 11 5. Port Health Administration. 16 6. Health Supervision of Air-Craft. 17 7. Adulteration or False Description of Food, Drugs and other Aiticles. 18 8. Health of Natives on the Witwatersrand Gold Minos. 19 V. Infectious, Communicable and Preventable Diseases 1. Notifications. 22 2. Ankylostomiasis (Hookworm Disease). 23 3. Bilharziasis (Schistosomiasis). 23 4. Diphtheria. 23 r 5. Enteric or Typhoid Fever. 23 6. Lead Poisoning.*. 24 7. Leprosy. 25 8. Malaria. 39 9. Meningitis: Epidemic Cerebro-Spinal. 40 10. Pellagra. 40 11. Plague. 40 12. Rabies.•. 41 13. Scarlet Fever. 41 14. Smallpox and Vaccination. 41 15. Tuberculosis. 44 16. Typhus Fever.*. 45 17. Venereal Diseases. 45 VI. General. 1. Sanitation, Refuse Disposal, etc. 47 2. Housing. 4 7 3. Town Planning. 00 4. Child Welfare. 50 5. Opium and Other Habit-forming Drugs. 52 6. Nurses and Midwives.. • • . 52 7. Nursing and Maternity Homes. 53 8. Inyangas or Native Herbalists in Natal and Zululand.. 53 9. General Hospitals. 53 10. Vaccines, Sera, Pathogenic Cultures, etc. 54 11. Goitre. 54 12. Dietetics. Annexure. “ A.”—Report on Investigation into Malaria in the Union of South Africa, by I rofessoi N. H. Swellengrebel..
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