Report of the Medical Services, Ministry of Health, Sudan Government.
- Sudan. Wizārat al-Ṣiḥḥah. Medical Services.
- Date:
- [1951]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Report of the Medical Services, Ministry of Health, Sudan Government. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![The relative increase in Equatoria Province was due to an epidemic in Katire, involving a total of 88 persons. The source was traced to a carrier employed as a food-handler in a public eating house. No epidemic outbreak occurred in other provinces. (e) Leprosy. No change was introduced in the methods of control adopted. Encouraging results were reported following sulphone treatment. Marked symptomatic improvement was frequent, but cases remained bacteriologically positive. It appeared that more prolonged courses of the drug must be given before it is possible to decide if a radical cure of the infection can be achieved. Table XXIV. Leprosy : 1950/51. Province Tola! kncvfl cases Total in Settlements Bacteriologically positive new cases found. Govern - ment M issions Bahr El Ghazal 2C2 144 19 Blue Nile 189 46 — 19 Darfur 42 33 — 36 Equatoria 6,821 969 201 208 Kas ala 42 36 — 23 Khartoum 46 10 — 13 Kordofan 2,122 80 — 16 Northern ] 1 — — 11 Upper Nile . . £7 21 — 10 Total 9,532 1,339 201 355 (f) Rabies. 20 cases of human hydrophobia were recorded. (g) Smallpox. 110 cases were notified, of these 71 cases, diagnosed as alastrim, were in the Upper Nile Province where the disease smoulders in this mild form. 136,728 vaccinations were performed, largely on the transport routes of Darfur, Kordofan and the Blue Nile Provinces. (h) Tuberculosis. A Chest Physician was appointed in March, 1950. He undertook organisation of a pilot Tuberculosis Scheme in the Three Towns. Three female tuberculosis visitors were appointed to carry out domiciliary supervision. Late in 1950 public interest in tuberculosis stimulated the formation of a voluntary body, the Sudan Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis. The organisation has attracted considerable support and has already afforded useful assistance to patients undergoing domiciliary care and to dependents of patients in hospital.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31639021_0026.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
