Annual report of the Medical Department / Tanganyika Territory.

  • Tanganyika. Medical Department.
Date:
[1951]
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Credit: Annual report of the Medical Department / Tanganyika Territory. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    XVIII.—MISSION MEDICAL SERVICES TABLE XVII Mission Medical Services, Category With resident doctor(s) Without resident doctor(s) but with over 20 beds Dispensaries (Fifty-nine maternity and child health clinics are also maintained by missions, many of which are attached to existing hospitals or dispensaries). 1951 No. No. of Beds 28 1,829 43 2,001 101 260 189. As can be seen from the above table the various missionary societies play an important part in the provision of medical facilities in the Territory, and their activities have been extended considerably during 1951. Thus the number of centres with resident practitioners has increased by seven during 1951, and the number of beds available by 148. It is unfortunate that many missions have failed to submit adequate statistics of the work done during the year. Such accurate statistics as are available present so incomplete a picture of the total amount of work which has been performed that it has been decided not to include them in this report. 190. During 1951 government grants-in-aid to missionary societies for medical work totalled £54,776. In addition certain native authorities give financial or other forms of assistance to missions for medical work carried on in their areas. Missions are also permitted to buy medical stores through the government organization, and receive free supplies of drugs used for the treatment of leprosy. Grants payable are assessed each year by the Missionary Medical Committee, on which each of the main societies is represented, and are payable in respect of medical work and for medical training. The distri¬ bution of grants for 1951 is shown by the following table TABLE XVIII Grants-in-Aid to Missions, 1951 Grants for Grants for Society Medical Work Training Total £ £ £ Universities Mission to Central Africa 17,193 1,150 18,343 Lutheran Missions ... 11,445 270 11,715 Benedictine Missions ... 6,965 500 7,465 Church Missionary Society ... 4,885 1,040 5,925 White Fathers Mission ... ... 2,730 250 2,980 Moravian Mission ... 2,093 — 2,093 Africa Inland Mission ... ... 1,800 - 1,800 Capuchin Mission ... 1,395 - 1,395 Mennonite Mission ... 1,260 — 1,260 Pallotine Fathers ... 1,125 1,125 Seventh Day Adventist Mission 675 — 675 Totals ... 51,566 3,210 54,776