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

  • Mauritius. Medical and Health Department
Date:
[1916]
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Credit: Annual report of the Director, Medical & Health Department / Colony of Mauritius. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ANNEXURE II. B. Statement showing the Spleen-rates of children in Schools. Half-year ended 31st December 1916. District. Total children on roll. Children examined. Spleens. Spleen-rate. Average spleen. 1 3 6 9 Total with spleen. Port Louis 5,543 3,733 2,988 409 202 134 745 19.95 1.77 Pamplemousses ... 1,648 ] ,161 967 106 58 30 194 16.71 1.64 Riv. du Rem part.. 1,329 853 763 54 9 27 90 10.55 1.43 Elacq 2,179 1,512 1,180 173 87 72 332 21.96 1.89 Grand Port 2,910 1,568 1,292 230 41 5 276 17.60 1.45 Savanne... 1,444 815 670 128 14 3 145 17.79 1.42 Black River 516 316 217 44 19 36 99 31.32 2.48 Plaines Wilhems.. 5,727 3,809 3,739 58 9 3 70 1.84 1.05 Moka 1,477 1,043 966 51 15 11 77 7.38 1.25 Total 22,773 14,810 12,782 1,253 454 321 2,028 13.68 1.49 ANNEXURE III. Sanitary condition of the Island. Annual Report for the year 1916. I have the honor to submit the following annual report on the sanitary condition of the Island during the year 1916, which is based on the several reports received from the various local Sanitary Authorities. The usual returns showing the duties performed and the contraventions detected by the staff of the Sanitary officers are herewith submitted. The general description of the work done is as follows :— 1. Poet Louis.—During the year under review the Sanitary Officers paid 11,441 visits to private premises and lodging houses. The inspections of shops, markets, bake-houses, slaughter-houses and butchers' shops amounted to 2,004 and special enquiries and other duties, &c., including attendance at cremations and exhumations as well as controls of the milk trade were attended to on 7,025 occasions. 2. The staff made 1,481 inspections of stables, pigsties and cowsheds and controlled the night soil service and the public latrines 361 times during the year. 3. The private gratuitous latrines, cemeteries, noxious factories, docks, camps, water-courses, &e., called for 513 inspections. 4. Quarantine duties were attended to on an aggregate of 37 days by the disinfectors of the staff. 5. The waste-lands in the town and its suburbs were cleaned of rank vegetation over an extent of 499,480 square yards. 6. The Sanitary Officers attended Court on 282 occasions. 7. The total number of contraventions of the different enactments detected during the year amounted to 890, and out of these 35 had not been finally dealt with when the year was closed. The amount of fines collected amounted to Rs. 1,824.05. 8. 526 Schedules were served upon the Municipal Corporation for nui¬ sances, the removal of which the Municipality is responsible for, under the provisions of Ordinance No. 23 of 1903, and 154 of them still remained unabated at the end of the year. 9. Public nuisances due to defective gutters, gully-holes, regards, broken underground water-pipes continued to be very numerous and in many instances, the nuisances continued for days and weeks before they were remedied. 10. The condition of the bed and banks of the various streams of the town is still defective in many respects. These public nuisances must again be referred to, especially in view of the favourable conditions they offer to the development and spread of malaria in Port Louis.