Annual report of the Department of Public Health of the Province of Saskatchewan.

  • Saskatchewan. Department of Public Health.
Date:
[1938]
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Credit: Annual report of the Department of Public Health of the Province of Saskatchewan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and any contracts entered into for service were made subject to the approval of the board. As in the previous year, the board was composed of Dr. H. H. Christie, Esterhazy, representing the Saskatchewan College of Physicians and Surgeons; Mr. R. W. Hanham, Woodrow, representing the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities, and Dr. R. O. Davison, deputy minister of public health, as chairman. Its main activities during 1938 may be summarized by the following paragraphs: Bylaws authorizing employment of medical practitioners were approved for the Town of Kindersley, the Villages of Flaxcombe, Hubbard, Ituna, Osage, Vantage and Wishart, and R.M. 44, R.M. 133, R.M. 134, R.M. 251, R.M. 260, R.M. 291, R.M. 334 and R.M. 501. Bylaws authorizing the employment of surgeons were approved for the Towns of Kindersley and Wadena, the Villages of Flaxcombe and Madison, R.M. 260, R.M. 290, R.M. 291, R.M. 337 and R.M. 459. Bylaws authorizing hospitalization at municipal expense were approved for the Village of McGee and R.M. 341. Agreements with municipal physicians were approved for the Towns of Kindersley and Wadena, the Villages of Buchanan, Coronach, Hubbard, Lipton, Madison, Osage, Vantage and Wishart, and R.M. 65, R.M. 101, R.M. 103, R.M. 121, R.M. 217, R.M. 251, R.M. 337, R.M. 410, R.M. 439 and R.M. 486. Agreements with municipal surgeons were approved for the Town of Kindersley. Agreements with hospitals for care and treatment at municipal expense were approved for the Village of Evesham, R.M. 278, R.M. 367 and R.M. 411. The Mariposa Mutual Medical and Hospital Benefit Association, Limited, was incorporated on August 15 and the Regina Mutual Medical Benefit Association, Limited, on December 23, under the provisions of The Mutual Medical and Hospital Benefit Associations Act, 1938. TREATMENT OF RESIDUAL PARALYSIS—ANTERIOR POLIOMYELITIS (See also Division of Communicable Disease Report) In the spring of 1938, in continuity of the 1937 program and as a follow¬ up procedure, an orthopaedic surgeon and a masseuse visited the homes of of the children who had been in the 1937 clinic at the Grey Nuns Hospital, Regina, and made further recommendations as to the care in the home, and arranged to have those needing further care and treatment brought back to the clinic in Regina. Of those examined in the homes, nine were brought back to the clinic. The first follow-up report indicated very satisfactory improvement in forty-five of seventy-nine of the 1937 cases visited; no improvement in three cases, definitely due to lack of co-operation from the parents; further paralytic appliances were needed in twenty cases, and operations required in eight cases. During the year 1938, thirty cases of acute anterior poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis) were reported to the department. The Red Cross Society worked with the department from the beginning and handled the problem of 1938 patients almost in its entirety. Of these patients, many received surgical treatment. Twenty-eight cases were treated in the Red Cross Hospital, Regina, nine being 1937 cases. The total expenditure of the Department for the residual paralysis cases in 1938 was $8,462.13. LEGISLATION: STATUTES OF 1939 The following new legislation and amendments to the various Acts admin¬ istered were enacted (in force April 1, 1939, except as otherwise indicated): 1. The Public Health Act. Cap. 81. (a) Sec. 7 amended and new clause (gg); (b) Sec. 38, sub-sec. (2) repealed re waterworks systems. (c) Sec. 86, sub-secs. (2), (4) and (5) re approval of municipal bylaws.