Annual medical and sanitary report / Nigeria.

  • Nigeria. Medical Department.
Date:
[1918]
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Credit: Annual medical and sanitary report / Nigeria. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Territorial readjustments between the Northern and the Southern Provinces, respectively, took effect during the year: the Southern Provinces taking in a part of the Kabba-Ilorin Province; the Northern rovmces, a portion of the Iddah country marching with their old Province ol Bassa. In consequence of the second of those territorial readjustments just mentioned, it became possible to set up the new Munsln Province. This was done by adding to the old Bassa Province ■ e Munsh1 district of the Province of Muri together with the portion or the Iddah country ceded by the Southern Provinces. The Munshi 1 o\nice now contains within its boundaries the Munshi, the Igara- Okpoto, the Bassa and the Bassa-Komo tribes: people among whom much sanitary work calls for attention so soon as it can be got at. i j Legislation. Rules were made and published as follows:— (1) Under “ The Townships Ordinance, 1917”: published in the Nigeria Gazette, No. 5 of 24th January, 1918. (2) Under “The Townships Ordinance, 1917”: published in the Nigeria Gazette, No. 20 of 18th April, 1918. (3) Under “The Markets Ordinance, 1917”: published in the Nigeria Gazette, No. 46 of 22nd August, 1918. (4) Under “The Townships Ordinance, 1917”: published in the Nigeria Gazette, No. 57 of 3rd October, 1918. (5) Under “The Public Health Ordinance, 1917”: published in the Nigeria Gazette, No. 74 of 21st November, 1918. A Regulation was made under “ The Births, Deaths and Burials Ordinance, 1917,” and was published in the Nigeria Gazette, No. 15 of 28th March, 1918. It is unnecessary to set out at length the text of the Rules and Regulation alluded to above: they were made for the purpose of giving more effective application and greater precision to the Ordinances concerned. A Bill entitled (short title) “The Lunacy (Amendment) Ordi¬ nance, 1919,” was published in the Nigeria Gazette, No. 80 of 19th December, 1918. The “Objects and Reasons” of and for this Bill, as set forth in the Gazette, are: “To provide for the establishment of Lunatic Asylums by Native Authorities and to amend the Lunacy Ordinance, 1916, by removing certain ambiguities.” Progress made. Arrangements were completed for getting on with the alterations necessary for the conversion of the old Gaol at Zungeru, together with the Annex thereof, into a Lunatic Asylum; so soon as it should have been evacuated by the troops in temporary occupation of it. Blow but steady progress was made with the metalled road for motor transport from Zaria to Sokoto; the great trunk roads were maintained and, in some parts of the country, were added to; the extension of the laying-down of Dhub grass was steadily maintained at various places; and, notably at Kaduna, the number of permanent incinerators was increased ; whilst many of the existing ones were practically renewed. The temporary piped water installation at Kaduna was strength¬ ened and increased: as a consequence of this, failures in supply became less frequently recurrent; although they did not cease entirely.