Report on the Medical and Sanitary Departments / Government of the Gold Coast.

  • Gold Coast. Medical Department.
Date:
[1927]
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Credit: Report on the Medical and Sanitary Departments / Government of the Gold Coast. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. I. —Administration. (a) Staff. (b) Ordinances affecting Public Health. (c) Financial. II. —Public Health. (a) General Remarks. (I) General Diseases. (II) Communicable Diseases. (b) Vital Statistics. (1) General African Population. (2) General European Population. (3) European Officials— Sick, Invaliding and Death-rates—Table. (4) African officials— Sick, Invaliding and Death-rates—Table. III. —Hygiene and Sanitation. (a) General review of work done and progress made. (I) Administrative—Staff. (II) Ordinances affecting Public Health. (III) Preventive Measures against— (i) Mosquito and Insect-borne Diseases (ii) Epidemic Diseases. (iii) Helminthic Diseases. (IV) General Measures of Sanitation. (V) School Hygiene. (VI) Labour Conditions. (VII) Housing and Town Planning. (VIII) Food in relation to Health and Disease. (b) Measures taken to spread the knoivledge of Hygiene and Sanitation. (c) Training of Sanitary Personnel. (d) Recommendations for future work. IV. —Port Health work and Administration. V. —Maternity and child welfare. VI. —PIospitals, Dispensaries and Venereal Diseases. VII. —Prisons and Asylums. VIII. —Meteorology. IX. —Scientific. (a) Annual Report of the Medical Research Institute. (b) Annual Report of the Analytical Chemist. Table—I.—Medical and Sanitary Staff on the 31st March, 1927. Table showing Summary of Routine Sanitary work done during the year. Table V.—Return of Diseases and Deaths (In-Patients). Table VI—Return of Diseases (Out-Patients).