Annual report on the Medical Department / Sierra Leone.

  • Sierra Leone. Medical Department
Date:
[1911]
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Credit: Annual report on the Medical Department / Sierra Leone. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The quantity of old tins, bottles and other waste articles likely to act as mosquito breeders, removed (a canoe’s capacity by measurement being two tons), was 3,028 tons as compared with 2,042 tons in 1910. Other anti-malarial measures such as the oiling of pools, the clearing of drains, and the free administration of quinine, were continued during the year. GENERAL EUROPEAN POPULATION. There was an improvement in population during 1911. The total Colony and Protectorate during the as follows Officials Military Non-Officials the health of the general European number of Europeans resident in the year was approximately 909, made up . 192 . 374 . 343 909 There were three deaths due to Blackwater Fever, accident (mentioned elsewhere) and Heart Disease. There were 56 invalidings, of which 17 were for Malaria and one for Blackwater, the other causes were:—Tuberculosis, Syphilis, Adenitis, Inflamma¬ tion of Middle Ear, Aortic Aneurism, Rheumatism, Indigestion, Heatstroke, Diarrhoea. The following table gives a comparative Statement of European deaths during the past 10 years :— Landed from Vessels. Colony and Protectorate. Military. i ear. 1 Otttl. Climatic. Non-Climatic. Climatic. Non-Climatic. Climatic. Non-Climatic. 1002 . 3 3 Nil. 1 1 8 1903 . 2 — 2 2 2 3 11 1904 . 3 — 2 3 2 •> -j 12 1905 . 3 — 2 2 i Nil. 8 1906 . 3 — 2 1 i 1 8 1907 . 2 — •> O •> O 2 Q .) 13 1908 . 1 — 1 6 3 2 13 1909 . 3 — 3 Nil. Nil. Nil. 6 1910 . Nil. Nil. 9 o 2 •> U 15 1911 . 2 5 2 i Nil. 1 11 HILL STATION. During the year 1911 there were 90 individuals resident at Hill Station for varying periods. Some were temporarily absent on duty in the Colony and Protectorate. The number 90 does not include those officials who left the Colony and returned during the year after vacation leave in England. The following table shows the composition of the resident population at the beginning and end of the year and it may be taken as fairly repre-