Annual medical and sanitary report / Swaziland.

  • Swaziland. Medical Department
Date:
[1955]
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Credit: Annual medical and sanitary report / Swaziland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Respiratory Allergy. Owing to pressure of work, Dr. Ordman, Superintendent, Allergy- Laboratories, South African Institute for Medical Research, has not yet b.en able to carry out his projected visit to S?/aziland to study respiratory allergy, but he hopes to be able to pursue his investig¬ ations in 1956. Rabies. In July all dogs (3392) in the Pigg's Peak District and the Mbabane Stock Inspector's area, were re-inoculated against Rabies; in August 7)000 dogs Y/ere immunised, and by the end of September the ‘inoculation campaign was almost completed, only a few centres in the Hlatikulu and Ranked ana areas remaining to be done. These were finally dealt with in November, a total of. 16,000 doses of anti-rabies vaccine being utilised during the mass . inoculation campaign. Endemic Goitre. The effect of the administration of potassium iodine in a total dosage of 60 grams to the pupils at the Mbabane Central School and the Mbuluzi Girls School'is shown in the following table:- MBABANE CENTRAL SCHOOL. Classification of Thyroid Enlargement. Girls % j Boys , 0/f 7° Total V I 7° ] 0 1 2 82 22 7 74 20 6 91 4 2 94 4 2 173 26 9 83 | 13 ! Total examined 111 _-. - 97 — _ 208 j t * Percentage of Goitre 1951 42“fo 1955 yffo MBULUZI GIRLS SCHOOL. Classification of Thyroid Englargement. Girls of /° Boys $ Total - -- % 0 65 70 25 86 1 22 24 4 14 26 21 2 5 5 — - 5 4 3 1 1 _ - 1 1 Total examined 93 — 29 122 3 mrnm Percentage of Goitre 1951 11 1955 2&/o The administration of Potassium Iodine in a dose equivalent to 11.0 mg per day has effected a remarkable improvement in the goitre position at the schools concerned. (II) Communicable Diseases. (i) Malaria. The 1954^55 transmission season v/as charactised by unusually heavy and sustained rainfall throughout the territory, as is exemplified by the fa.ct that precipitation in Bremersdorp during the period January to June was 76.6^ in excess of the average for the previous five years. As a consequence of this factor heavy breeding of malaria vectors prevailed throughout the season, and larvae of A. gambiae were recovered from all parts of the bushveld., and. were particularly abundant on irrigation schemes during the entire season.
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