Medical and sanitary report / Government of the Gold Coast.

  • Gold Coast. Medical Department
Date:
[1909]
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    Sanitation. I would refer to the report on the condition of Ashanti villages, which I was instructed by Dr. Rice, Senior Medical Officer, Ashanti, to submit to him. Small-pox. For an account of this epidemic I would refer to my report recently forwarded to Headquarters. Sleeping Sickness. I regret to have to record the finding of Trypanosomes in the blood of Dr. McDouall, Medical Officer, after three months residence in Sunyani. Early in the year two cases were reported by Dr. Kelly, Medical Officer, Kintampo, as having come from Fiema, which is a small village a few hours north¬ east of Nkoranza. I was sent there in May by Dr. Rice, and, failing to find any cases, or any account of suspicious deaths in that village, I suggested the examination of Cheremankoma, close to Kintampo, from which place Dr. Kelly’s cases had immediately come in. The story of an epidemic, which, two years previously had carried off 200 people, and bore a striking resemblance to one of Sleeping Sickness, was elicited from the Chief of Cheremankoma. Numerous Tse-tse were found there by Drs. Rice and Kelly, also several cases of Trypanosomiasis. A fly-proof Hospital has been erected at Kintampo. . In August I reported a suspicious case in the Ejura Zongo. Two cases have been diagnosed by Dr. Kinghorn amongst the troops in Sunyani. Nine cases have been under treatment in Coomassie. Glossina palpalis is found in patches all up the Sunyani Road. Dr. Rice has reported its presence at a large number of the villages on the Kintampo Road. I have found it frequently on the Salaga Road as far as the Pruh, in several villages round Antoa, and at Kumawo. Dr. Brabazon reports its presence on the Volta from two miles below Yeji down to Krachi. Dr. Kelly informs me that the Banda district, said by the chiefs to be free of the fly, is largely infested with it. FRANS. I. M. JIJPE, Ag. Senior Medical Officer. (Sgd.)
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