Annual medical and sanitary report / Uganda Protectorate.

  • Uganda Protectorate. Medical Department.
Date:
[1924]
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Credit: Annual medical and sanitary report / Uganda Protectorate. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The principal causes of sickness were: Malaria ... 691 Blackwater Fever ... 19 Local Injuries ... 68 Ear, Nose and Throat 68 Influenza ... 42 Dysentery ... 11 Enteric Fever ... 2 Relapsing Fever ... ... 2 Diseases of the Digestive System 206 Diseases of the Respiratory System 184 Diseases of the Nervous System 32 MEDICAL BOARDS. Ten Medical Boards were held on Asiatic Officials during the year, the following recommendations being made :— (а) To be invalided out of the service ... Chronic Nephritis Physically unfit Cancer of Lung Pyorrhoea and Hepatitis Malaria and Debility (б) To proceed to India on Sick Leave .... Depression and Insomnia Pyorrhoea Mental condition (c) To be transferred to a healthier station Blackwater Fever (id) To return to duty Temporary Heart Lesion 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 5 3 1 1 LOCAL SICK LEAVE. Eight Asiatic Officials were granted sick leave for varying periods to be spent in Uganda or Kenya Colony. Table showing the Sick, Invaliding and Death Rates of Asiatic Officials DUBING THE LAST THREE YEARS. Total number of Officials resident Average number resident Total number on sick list Total number of days on sick list Average daily number on sick list Percentage of sick to average number resident ... Average number of days on sick list for each patient Average sick time to each resident Total number invalided Percentage of invaliding^ to total residents Total deaths Percentage of deaths to total residents Percentage to average number resident No. of cases of sickness contracted away from station 1922 1923 1924 302 ... 300 ... 415 337 ... 339 ... 387 1,417 .. 1,447 ... 1,763 5,4] 6 ... 5,299 ... 3,408 14-84 ... 14-47 ... 9-31 4-40 ... 4-26 ... 2-40 3-82 ... 3-66 ... 1-93 16-07 ... 15-63 ... 8-80 12 6 8 3-97 ... 2-00 ... 1-92 4 2 6 1-32 ... -66 ... 1-44 1-18 ... -59 ... 1-55 i 32 (No record) Housing. There is still an acute shortage of houses for European and Asiatic Officials with the result that bachelors are quartered together as far as possible. The shortage is particularly marked in the larger stations, e.g., Kampala, Entebbe and Jinja. Special attention has been directed to the necessity of prompt repairs to the guttering and the gauze wire protection against mosquitoes. Many houses, especially in out-stations, are by nc means mosquito-poof, owing (a) to the existing gauze wire being in bad condition, (b) to the houses being incompletely screened, or (c) to a combination of these two factors. The present type of tank attached to Government houses is unsatisfactory as it forms a common breeding place for culex and stegomyia mosquitoes. Representations have been made to remedy the existing defects and a new inlet and man-hole cover is on trial.