Annual medical and sanitary report / Uganda Protectorate.

  • Uganda Protectorate. Medical Department.
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[1916]
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Credit: Annual medical and sanitary report / Uganda Protectorate. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (12) . The epidemic has been a serious blow to commerce, especially in Kampala, hut with the exception of some of the lower class Indian shopkeepers the people both at Kampala and Jinja have philosophically submitted to the stringent regulations imposed and have given every assistance to the Medical and Municipal authorities in carrying them out and the lay members of the Local Sanitary Boards have given loyal support to the Medical authorities in the prosecution of the measures prescribed. (13) . Sub-Assistant Surgeon A. D. Kharkanis deserves much credit in that in the absence of the Senior Medical Officer he insisted, in spite of much opposition from the deceased’s Mahommedan relatives, in performing a post-mortem on the first case of plague at Jinja. The establishment of the diagnosis by this means induced the Senior Medical Officer, Dr. van Sotneren, to begin the inoculation of the Jinja inhabitants at the outset of the epidemic thereby most probably saving many lives. (14) . The Medical Officer of Health, Kampala, reports very favourably on the good work done by Sub-Assistant Surgeon Achru Earn in the care of plague cases and the examination of rats. (15) . I was aw7ay until October 30th on military duty so that the preventive measures so promptly carried out were organised by Dr. Collyns, Medical Officer of Health at Kampala, and Capt. van Someren, Senior Medical Officer at Jinja; in this they were ably assisted by Major Strathairn, Senior Medical Officer, Kampala, and Dr. Spearman. (16) . It is a matter for congratulation that, owing to the precautions taken, the large number of troops and military porters passing through the infected ports were kept free of plague. Entebbe, 31st December, 1916. C. J. BAKER, Medical Hanitary Officer. /