Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the Colony on the public health ... / Cape of Good Hope.
- Cape of Good Hope (South Africa). Department of Public Health.
- Date:
- [1904]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the Colony on the public health ... / Cape of Good Hope. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![u. SIMON’S TOWN, Dr. H. Clarke, Medical Inspector. 1 he Contagious Diseases Prevention Act, of 1885, worked very well in this Division during- the half-year ended June 80th, 1904, and I would direct attention to my report for 1908, in which I pointed out its success during that year. The following table shows the results: — Number of women on the Eegister, 31st December, 1903 Number of new cases registered during the half-year ... Number of women removed during the half-year . Number of women examined during the half-year. Voluntary submissions under Section 14 of the Act ... Compulsory submissions under Section 10. Number of separate periodical examinations . Number of admissions into Hospital. Average duration of stay in Hospital. 87 Q O 6 40 35 5 738 14 38 dys. In my report for 1903 I mentioned the satisfaction of the Naval and Military authorities with the Act, and I now attach an extract from an unsolicited letter written to me by the Senior Medical Officer of His Majesty’s Fleet on this Station, Fleet Surgeon Donald T. Hoskyn, M.B. I think if this letter is read in conjunc¬ tion with the statement made by the Director General of the R.N., when the Act was first put in force here in 1888, the result will be considered startling: — ” Simon’s Town and St. Helena are stated to have caused the greater part of the disease, more especially the former locality.” H.M.S. Crescent, Simon’s Bay, July 16th, 1904. “ I have much pleasure in testifying to the complete success of the work¬ ing of the Contagious Disease Prevention Act in Simon’s Town, in proof of which I beg to bring to your notice the fact that between the date of our arrival at Simon’s Town, 18th April, and the end of last quarter, there has not been a single entry on the sick list due to venereal disease contracted at that Port. The Crescent, during this period, had an average daily strength of 583, and 763 officers and men were at one time or another on the ship’s books. I may mention as a contrast that before leaving Portsmouth at the commencement of the commission, there were six entries on the sick list for syphilis primary, eleven for syphilis secondary, five for gonorrhoea, and four for sequelae of gonorrhoea ; and one of the last, after a severe illness, had to be invalided home as his constitution wTas mined.” 4. EAST LONDON. Dr. J. Barcroft Anderson, Medical Inspector. There are at present practically no Europeans in town who are liable to be dealt with under this Act, a consequence of the operation of Act 36, of 1902. Amongst the native women there has been very little sickness, otherwise the working of the Act, as far as they are concerned, has remained unchanged. 5. KING WILLIAM’S TOWN. Dr. Henry M. Chute, Medical Inspector. Under Part I. of the Act, ten women have been dealt with ; of these twro were found to have been diseased and wrere admitted into hospital. The number of cases sent to this hospital for treatment from East London, under Part I. has been five. Part II. of the Act continues to work satisfactorily ; natives voluntarily avail themselves of the advantage of the hospital for obtaining treatment, and during? [G. 35*—1904.] q](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31482004_0361.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
