Annual medical and sanitary report / Swaziland.

  • Swaziland. Medical Department
Date:
[1956]
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Credit: Annual medical and sanitary report / Swaziland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    - 24 - A table showing the causes of death is given below: - Number Cause of Death. of deaths. Diseases of the heart, and other diseases of the circulatory system. Violence 1 7 3 Carcinoma 2 Gastro-enteritis 2 Senility Suicide 2 1 Premature Birth 1 Unknown 1 TOTAL 19 Registration is not compulsory in the case of the Non- European population. III. HYGIENE AND SANITATION. A. (i) Preventative Measures. (a) Malaria. During the 1955/56 transmission season 102,762 huts were treated with residual, insecticide, as compared with 121,087 in 1954, 154,585 in 1953, 73,000 in 1952, 36,550 in 1951, and 23,000 in 1950. Some 15,000 huts were dealt with during the 1956/57 transmission season by the end of the calendar year, and it is estimated that the total will not exceed 50,000 during the present season. (b) Smallpox. The interrupted mass vaccination campaign is to be resumed during the last quarter of the present financial year. Routine vaccination was carried out as usual in the main centres of population. ( c) Typhoid and Paratyphoid and other Salmonella Infections. * All cases reported during the year were sporadic in dis¬ tribution, and investigations into the origin of the cases were inconclusive in every instance. It is assumed that the housefly is the main agent in the dissemination of the disease. (d) Diphtheria and Whooping Cough. Immunization against these diseases was normally undertaken at the request of parents, and no mass inoculation on even a limited scale was undertaken. (e) Schistosomiasis. The routine use of molluscide in the Mzimnene catchment area has materially reduced the snail population in the area, and provision has been made for the introduction of a comprehensive control programme when surveys and other investigations which are at present being conducted are further advanced. Preliminary surveys at the Swaziland Irrigation Scheme (C.D.C), Big Bend and Malkem's Irrigation Schemes have shown that a prolific breeding of snail vectors is, as anticipated, taking place in these areas. The method of continuous drip with mollusicides at the inlets to canals is at present under investigation, and the adoption in this territory of the system of control of snails which has been introduced with such success in the canals of the Gezira Irrigated Areas of the Sudan is envisaged.
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