Annual medical and sanitary report / Swaziland.

  • Swaziland. Medical Department.
Date:
[1962]
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Credit: Annual medical and sanitary report / Swaziland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    3 to assemble in Manzini, from where they will operate from an extension built during the year onto the Health Office, and consisting of laboratory, X-Ray rooms, out-patient clinics and offices, Bilharzia is wide-spread among the indigenous population, and whilst the clinical manifestations are usually minimal, it is felt that a potentially very dangerous position exists at the irrigation schemes, and a careful watch is being kept on conditions here. Malnutrition and infantile diarrhoea are important causes of ill-health and death amongst young children, the former being especially noticeable at the post-weaning age, and heart-diseases and pneumonia also rank high as causes of death. The conditions which cause most attendances at Govern¬ ment hospitals are acute upper respiratory tract infections, diseases of the genito-urinary system, minor disorders of the digestive system, venereal disease, rheumatism and infections of the skin and subcutaneous tissues. Among the infectious diseases, enteric fever was even more prevalent than before, although the majority of cases occurred sporadically. The coverage it was possible to give to Public Health work improved during 1962, with the appointment of an addit¬ ional qualified Health Inspector, the establishment now being . four, two of whom are employed on general public health work, one on malaria and one on bilharzia work. It v/as a great pleasure to welcome Dr. J.M. Liston, Chief Medical Officer at the Department of Technical Co-op¬ eration, to Swaziland at the end of July. Dr. Liston was taken on an extensive tour of the Territory and visited all hospitals. In March Dr. H. Stott, of the Valley Trust, Botha's Hill, and Mr. Don Mackenzie of the Toe H. T.B. Settlement, Botha’s Hill, visited Swaziland, the first to see the work of the Nutrition Survey team in the field, and the latter to invest¬ igate the possibility of Toc.H. extending its activities into Swaziland. / • 9 C 9