Annual report of the Director, Medical & Health Department / Colony of Mauritius.

  • Mauritius. Medical and Health Department
Date:
[1956]
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Credit: Annual report of the Director, Medical & Health Department / Colony of Mauritius. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (h) Goverment Notice No. 49, being Regulations made under item (a) of p-iragaaph (1) of Part VI of Section 193 of the Public Healih Ordinance (Cap. 211) fixing the charges for night soil service performed on private premises in the towns of Curepipe and in the village of Phoenix. (i) Government Notice No. 58, being Regulations made under paragraph (5) of Part V of Section 193 of the Public Health Ordinance (Cap. 277), fixing the rates to be charged for the monthly hire of stalls or spaces in public markets. (j) Government Notice No. 59, being Regulations made under paragraph (15) of Part V of Section 193 of the Public Health Ordinance (Cap. 277), fixing the annual fee to be paid for a permit to sell meat. (k) Government Notice No. 60, cited as the Public Health (slaughter-houses) (Amendment) Regulations 1956, fixing the tariff of fees or charges to be levied for the killing and preparation for sale of slaughtered animals. (l) Government Notice No. 77, being Regulations made under Section 4 of the Quarantine Ordinance 1953, amending Regulations 2 and 4 of the principal Ordinance. (m) General Notice No. 980, made under Section 161 of the Public Health Ordinance (Cap. 277), to select and appoint a portion of land to be used as a public cemetery at Bambous. 31. The suicide mortality rate for the year under review was 6*68 per 100,000 of the population. The rate in respect of each of the ten years preceding 1956 is given below :— 1946 Year Rate per 100,000 population T 31 1947 1156 1948 7-92 1949 8-87 1950 6-45 1951 723 1952 5-38 1953 5-22 1954 6-59 1955 9-10 32. Visitors from overseas included :— Mr ]. Hamon, Research Entomologist, Ministere de la France d'Outre mer, Paris. Mr. J ean Dupoirieux, Tuberculosis Specialist, Reunion. Miss Lyle Creelman, Chief of the Nursing Section, World Health Organization, Geneva. Dr Kenneth Martin, World Health Organization Representative, East African area. Miss D. Rittner, Liaison Officer for Mauritian Students.