Annual report of the Public Health Department / Zanzibar Protectorate.

  • Zanzibar. Public Health Department.
Date:
[1953]
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Credit: Annual report of the Public Health Department / Zanzibar Protectorate. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A summary of the results of trapping rats during the year is shown below: — Total number of traps set ... ... ... 117,814 Total of rats caught ... ... ... ... 6,408 Number of slides taken ... ... ... ... 2,727 Total of houses trapped ... ... ... 55,739 Average of rats per house trapped ... ... .10 Number of rats trapped per 100 traps ... ... 3.55% Species: Rattus ... ... ... ... 6,364 Other rodents, mice, shrews, etc. ... 44 Housing and Town-Planning : Zanzibar Township 31. Building Authority.—The building authorities are constituted as follows: — Stone Town - District Engineer. Medical Officer of Health. Ngambo (Native Location) - District Commissioner (Urban). Medical Officer of Health. The volume of work remained very heavy throughout the year and, although its importance is appreciated, it is making such demands on the time of sanitary inspectors that their other work has to suffer. The Building Appeals Advisory Board, dealing with appeals against decisions of the Ngambo building authority, meets regularly. In the majority of cases the building authority’s decisions were upheld. One thousand, six hundred and seventy-three applications in the Ngambo area were made. Of these thirty-six were the subject of appeal and in only ten cases was the appeal allowed after submission by the Appeal Board to the British Resident. 32. Inspections and recommendations were made in connection with the following applications made to the Joint Building Authority: — Stone Buildings Applications with plans: 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 Erection of new buildings ... 23 26 14 28 29 Major alterations and additions including drainage to existing buildings ... 115 100 115 125 178 Applications without plans: 288 Alterations and additions ... 266 257 260 261 Permits refused 4 5 12 8 10 Notices served for unauthorised works ... 23 14 12 22 27 Notices served for dangerous structures ... 190 116 111 124 114 Native-type Buildings •s. Applications for erection of new huts 137 170 296 181 341 Applications for reconstruction and ex¬ 345 115 tension of existing huts ... 245 227 281 Applications for repairs to existing huts ... 1,306 1,420 1,680 1,245 1,217 Notices served for stoppage of unauthor¬ 22 ised works 34 54 61 69 Notices served for demolition 6 10 4 5 4
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