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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    Cerebro-Spin al Meningitis. 148 cases with 106 deaths were reported, distributed as follows:— Townships Districts Totals Cases Deaths Cases Deaths Cases Deaths Buganda Kingdom:— Mengo District — — 2 2 ) Masaka do — — — — 3 Masaka 1 1 — — 1 Eastern Province :— Bukedi Area — 11 9 11 9 Teso District — 58 58 7 Soroti 2 1 — — ] 60 59 Busoga District — — — — Jinja 1 1 — — 1 1 1 # Northern Province :— West Nile District ... — — — — 7 . Arua 1 1 — _ j 1 1 Western Province :— . Ankole District — — — — Mbarara 1 — — t 72 33 Kigezi District — — 71 33 Totals 6 4 142 102 .48 106 With the exception of an outbreak in the Kuikisi area of the Kigezi District in October, which lasted into November and accounted for 71 cases with 33 deaths, this disease never assumed anything approaching epidemic form, but was present throughout the year in the Teso District of the Eastern Province which returned a few cases every month and accounted for 60 cases in all. Enteric Fever {see special report). Influenza. This disease has been very prevalent throughout the Protectorate, but the type has been a mild one. 1,925 deaths are reported from native returns as due to this disease. 1,553 was the figure last year. Dysentery. With the exception of an outbreak of the bacillary type in the Jails at Kampala and Luzira which is reported on fully elsewhere {see Section Y. page 18 Health in Prisons) this disease calls for no special comment here, the increase in the number of cases reported from the different stations being accounted for by a more efficient staff leading to better diagnosis and to the extension of the sub-dispensaries in the Western Province GENERAL SANITATION. Water Supply.—Mr. W. G. Morris, Water Engineer, arrived in the country early, in the year and has been conducting investigations into the question of pipe-borne supplies for Kampala and Jinja. I understand that a scheme to supply Jinja from the River Nile has been drawn up and provisionally approved, but that no satisfactory source of supply for Kampala has yet been found. The present sources of supply in Entebbe from (1) tanks, (2) the Lake, and (3) a spring in the Botanical Gardens, are far from satisfactory and are all liable to serious contamination both chemically and bacteriologically. Sources (2) and (3) have previously been reported on adversely by the Bacteriologist. Drainage— Details of the work done in the stations of Kampala, Jinja and Entebbe are given in Tables IY. Owing to difficulties' in obtaining labour, and the increased cost of same not as much was done in Kampala and Jinja as was hoped for. The work done at Entebbe during the year was urgently required and 800 yards of masonry drains were constructed, although no complete scheme for the surface drainage of this township has yet been drawn up. A complete scheme for Jinja is said to be in existence but I have not yet seen a plan of this.