Report on the public health / Southern Rhodesia.

  • Southern Rhodesia. Department of Health.
Date:
[1923]
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Credit: Report on the public health / Southern Rhodesia. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    granted leave pending retirement on pension. Dr. (). E. Jackson, Government Medical Officer, Shamva, was trans¬ ferred to Umtali, on promotion to the rank of Senior Government Medical Officer. Colonel C. M. Goodbody, C.I.E., D.S.O., Assistant Government Medical Officer, Marandellas, was granted leave pending resignation. Two new medical officers were appointed during the year. District medical officers, in addition to their Government duties, are allowed private practice within their districts. There are now fifty-eight medical practitioners registered and prac¬ tising their profession in the Colony, the distribution being as follows : — In Salisbury 12, Bulawayo 14, Gwelo 2, Shabani 2, Gatooma 2. Umtali 2, Mount Selinda 2, Shamva, 2, and one each at the following places :—- Lonely, Bindura, Selukwe, Que Que, Sinoia, Plumtree, Penhalonga, Fort Victoria, Wankie, Inyati, Mashaba, Marandellas, Umvuma, Mazoe, Melsetter, Rusape, Ndanga, Enterprise, Gwanda and Enkeldoorn. The compound inspection staff consists of three inspectors, whose duties embrace the control of the health and sanitary conditions under which natives are employed on mines, railways and other works within their respective circuits. Seventy applications for appointments to the Southern Rhodesia nursing service were received from qualified nurses; eight were engaged, of whom two received their training at, the Salisbury Hospital; both daughters of settlers in Rhodesia and born in the Colony. Nine nurses resigned during the year; six in order to be married, two on account of ill-health, and one in order to take up a more re¬ munerative appointment. Seventy-seven applications were received for appointments as pro¬ bationers; six were engaged, of whom five were residents of the Colony. Five probationers left during the year on expiration of their pro- bationership; all of these successfully passed the Cape Colonial Council’s examination for trained nurses, one first, and one second place in this examination being obtained. With the exception of Bulawayo and Rusape. nil general hospitals, are wholly maintained and administered by the Government. In the case of Bulawayo and Rusape, these are Memorial Hospitals, partly erected and maintained by public subscription, with the assistance of substantial grants-in-aid from the Government. General hospitals are established at Salisbury, Bulawayo, Umtali, Gwelo, Gatooma, Fort Victoria, Gwanda. Sinoia, Shamva, Rusape, Enkeldoorn and Belingwe, each with its own medical, nursing and auxiliary staff, and with separate accommodation for European and native patients. There is a mental hospital for Europeans and natives at Ingutsheni on the outskirts of Bulawayo; and a settlement for native lepers at Mor- genster, some twenty miles from Fort Victoria. Financial.—The following figures show the expenditure under the Public Health and Hospital Votes, under the respective headings, for the year 1923, each compared with 1922 :—