Annual medical and sanitary report / Nigeria.

  • Nigeria. Medical Department
Date:
[1923]
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Credit: Annual medical and sanitary report / Nigeria. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    3 First Class Sanitary Inspectors. 1 Theatre Assistant. 23 Clerks, Lower Division, Grade I. 54 Second Class Dispensers. 10 Second Class Sanitary Inspectors. 1 Deputy Registrar of Vital Statistics. 5 Storekeepers. 38 First Class Nurses. 2 Laboratory Attendants. 15 Clerks, Lower Division, Grade II, and Probationers. 32 Third Class Sanitary Inspectors. 3 Laboratorv Assistants. 80 Second Class Nurses. 19 Dispensers-in-Training. 73 Nursesdn-Training. 26 Sanitary Inspectors-in-Training. FINANCIAL. (a) Statement of Revenue for the year 1923. Revenue—Hospital and Medical Receipts £6,138 19s. 9d. (b) Statement of Expenditure for the year 1923. Medical Department (including Sanitary). Heads 16 and 17. £ s. d. Personal Emoluments ... ... 167,146 15 1 Other Charges ... ... ... 92,754 10 8 £259,901 5 9 II. PUBLIC HEALTH. GENERAL REMARKS. The Returns for the year under consideration are for the combined Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria, including that portion of the Cameroons now under British Mandate. There is a slight increase in the number of Europeans treated, and a considerable increase in the number of natives applying for medical treatment. Total cases treated in Government hospitals and dispensaries. Europeans Natives ... f * Total Europeans Natives 1921. 5,919 ... 172,837 1922. 5,930 161,874 1923. 5,993 213,326 ... 178,756 167,804 221,242 Total Deaths. 1921. 1922. 1923, 34 38 21 1,114 953 1,281 1,148 991 1,302 Total