Annual medical and sanitary report / Nigeria.

  • Nigeria. Medical Department.
Date:
[1932]
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Credit: Annual medical and sanitary report / Nigeria. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TABLE X. Seasonal Incidence of Mortality Deaths—Year 1932. DEATHS. _ Other Non-Natives and Europeans and Whites (Whole of Nigeria). Africans (Lagos including Ebute Metta). Male. Female. Total. Male. F emale. Total. January... 2 9 h-> 83 93 62 145 February 4 . • . 4 62 155 March ... 1 1 2 79 55 134 April 4 • • • 4 75 76 151 May 3 • • 4 3 89 69 158 June 2 • • • 2 95 53 148 July . 2 ... 2 hj 100 69 169 August ... • • • • 1 1 92 75 167 September • • • 77 67 63 144 October 1 3 4 87 150 November 1 • * • 1 77 69 146 December 2 ... 9 85 67 152 Total 22 5 97 h-> 4 1,032 787 1,819 III. HYGIENE AND SANITATION. A.—GENERAL REVIEW OF WORK DONE AND PROGRESS MADE. I.—Preventive Measures. (i) Mosquito and insect-borne diseases. Malaria.—General anti-malaria work has been carried out in all stations by the various Medical and Health Officers and by the more organised Native Administrations on the advice of Health Officers. In the smaller stations this does not usually amount to more than the treat¬ ment of active cases, quinine prophylaxis, and oiling of known breeding areas, but in many of the larger towns extensive swamp drainage, reclamation, levelling and bush clearing have been carried out. In Kaduna fifteen miles of stream and water-courses were cleared and canalised; three miles of new drains were dug, and about 2J square miles of swampy ground were drained and the existing dykes filled in. Drip barrels were erected in suitable places and a considerable amount of anti-larval work was done with fuel oil and paris green. Enormous borrow pits from which mud has been taken to build the thick-walled houses, are one of the features of the towns of the Northern Provinces. They are a potent source of mosquito breeding, though probably more often of Mansonioides than of any species of Anopheles. The filling in of borrow pits has made considerable progress at Kano, Zaria, Gusau, Makurdi, Bauchi and Lokoja. At Ibadan, Abeokuta, Enugu, and Port Harcourt ditching and regular oiling have been maintained and the schemes already in progress have been further extended. In Onitsha township and its environs, where the problem of mosquito control is one of exceptional difficulty, an extensive drainage scheme involving the construction of four miles of ditching in the Nkesi valley alone, in addition to the reduction of the water level in the Otomoye swamp, which is half a mile long, and measures directed towards the obliteration of other smaller mosquito-producing areas, has been initiated by Dr. Drysdale Anderson, Medical Officer of Health, and it is anticipated that the present programme will be completed by June,