Annual report on the medical services / Sierra Leone.

  • Sierra Leone. Medical Department
Date:
[1943]
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Credit: Annual report on the medical services / Sierra Leone. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Trypanosomiasis.—The work of the sleeping sickness teams continue!, yaws being treated at the same time. Three dispensaries for the follow up of these diseases were established, and proved to be very popular, the atten¬ dances at one of them being higher than those at a neighbouring Government dispensary of many years standing. These dispensaries also treated other diseases. Tbe figures are :—- 1942 Population examined ... ... ... 91,307 Sleeping sickness cases ... .. ... 2,751 Other diseases (dispensaries) ... ... —■ Yaws.—Treated at Government hospitals and dispensaries ... ... ... ... 36,136 Yaws cases treated in course of sleeping sickness work ... ... ... 6,531 1941 99.540 1,143 6,558 39,596 10,828 ^ Yellow Fever.—No cases were reported Tuberculosis.—The increase in pulmonary tuberculosis is probably more apparent than real as many cases are induced to seek treatment on account of facilities now provided on a limited scale at the Connaught Hospital where special ward accommodation has been set aside for such cases. Figures for 1943 from April 14th when the special clinic was opened, are as follows : — Total number of persons examined ... ... — 206 Contacts ... ... ... ... ... _ go Cases of pulmonary tuberculosis ... ... — 88 Operations performed ... ... ... _ 132 Cases followed up ... ... ... ... _ 420 Of the remaining cases not followed up forty-five were found to be in good health, whilst forty-one were not able to be traced. The operations included artificial pneumothorax, lung abscess, phrenic evulsion, perienr- dotomy, pheryngotomy, empyema and exploratory thoracotomy. Notifies tions for tuberculosis numbered 161 during 1943 as against an average of sixty-four during the years 1938 to 1949. o riag-ue.—So cases occurred during the year. Of 4,957 rats caught :?’£? were examined and found negative (in 1942 the figures were 6,389 and , °>J8‘ respectively). Rat species were as follows: — tj R. rdus ... — 3,411 A R. norvegicus ... — .1,327 Various mice, shrews, etc. 219 Total 4,957 Of AeapiiTm 087 ** exa“i”ed numbered 3,124, giving a flea index of 31. Fleas were identified as follows:_ Xenopsylla eheopis — Xenopsylla braziiiensis Total ... 1,228 1,896 3,124 Rabies. Of 2,245 dogs caught, 2,039 were destroyed. Negri bodies wen found m twelve out of thirty-three postmortems. 414 licensed dogs wen moceulated. No case ot human rabies occurred. ® IV—GENERAL MEASURES OF SANITATION .. Tlie disposal of Freetown refuse by controlled tippino- progresset Satisfactorily a crop of maize, etc., was grown on the tip as*a first cron ~o,e>62 tons of refuse were disposed of. 1 st C10P the pScS ” C“S* ^ ** i» *h. Colony
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