Annual report of the Superintending Medical Officer / Jamaica.

  • Jamaica. Medical Department
Date:
[1914]
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Credit: Annual report of the Superintending Medical Officer / Jamaica. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ]0 it is noticed that an imported case in a certain section of the district is often followed by a crop of other cases. If the first few cases were quickly cured the risk of infection to the healthy would be appreciably decreased. I have, etc., Eyre Smith, D.M.O. Report on thirty cases of Yaws treated by Salvarsan in the Duncans District of Trelawny during the months of February and March, 1914. These cases were selected from cases seen in the villages of Stewart Town, Jackson Town, Clarks Town, Kinloss and Duan Vale, and were the most serious cases seen—nearly all were children—as stated in my return. Some of these cases were of a very severe type. One child had large ulcers between the buttocks exuding a most offensive discharge. Six days after injection these ulcers had healed and the yaws on the other parts of the body were drying up. The results in all cases were excellent and the opinions of the mothers and fathers concerning the use of the drug soon changed from one of aversion to complete belief in its usefulness. Only in one case was there much constitutional disturbance, i.e., fever sweats, but these sympcoms soon passed off. Tne people as a whole are very pleased with these results: and I do riot'anticipate any trouble about using trie drug. Cases should however, be selected—there are many children who appear to be hovering between life and death but with no definite disease—these are the most dangerous cases to treat. F. A. G. Purchas, D.M.O. 17.4.14. Yaws Return without Salvarsan Treatment, 1913-14. Parish. District. D.M.O. 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th St. Andrew Stony Hill Dr. L. Crooks 34 do Gordon Town Dr. C. E. Sharp 214 54 52 , , St. Thomas Morant Bay Dr. T. M. Bartlett 214 87 29 16 1 do Plantain Garden River Dr. F. R. Evans 172 52 • • do St. Davids Dr. A. T. Clarke 713 173 140 207 103 Portland Manchioneal Dr. T. A. Dryden 385 273 • • do Port Antonio Dr. J. G. Moseley 215 do Buff Bay Dr. H. J. George 344 173 48 St. Mary Annotto Bay Dr. H. Joslen 244 113 19 • • do Richmond Dr. Ritchie 596 39 1 do Gayle Dr. C. S. Gideon 655 370 235 122 20 • • St. Ann St. Ann’s Bay Dr. A. E. Myers 19 15 • • do Moneague Dr. A. G. Curphey 5 2 do Cave Valley Dr. G. Hargreaves 70 54 14 • • do Dry Harbour Dr. W. E. Wilson 35 37 36 32 32 12 12 Trelawny Falmouth Dr. G. P. Campbell 19 68 . # do do Dr. A. E. Myers 11 2 2 6 5 . . . do Duncans Dr. F. A. G. Purchas 116 43 45 do Ulster Spring Dr. E. V. Smith . 64 83 55 30 7 2 do do Dr. G. E. Cheyne 80 3 29 14 9 1 St. James Adelphi Dr. Johnston 78 39 14 36 17 14 10 6 14 5 do Montego Bav Dr. G. W. Thomson 441 393 96 Hanover Lucea Dr. F. H. Cooke 360 108 130 122 128 109 88 46 27 10 5 Westmoreland Little London Dr. F. A. Sinclair 144 15 do Sav.-la-Mar Dr. C. E. Harvey 79 14 do Lamb’s River Dr. R. G. Sherlock 289 162 25 St. Elizabeth Black River Dr. C. Farquharson 38 do Balaclava Dr. W. Lofthouse 229 155 124 do Santa Cruz Dr. J. A. L. Calder 37 Manchester Newport Dr. M. M. Meikle 38 59 65 9 1 do Mile Gullv Dr. Farquharson 140 79 15 61 67 Clarendon Crofts Hill Dr. Ii. T. Strudwick 122 109 70 61 37 21 i6 6 2 i do Four Paths Dr. E. R. C. Earle 62 51 16 14 24 St. Catherine Spanish Town Dr. J. H. Peck 17 32 23 7 do Old Harbour Dr. F. 0. Simpson 362 101 66 do Linstead Dr. L. M. Clark 166