Annual report of the Public Health Department / Zanzibar Protectorate.

  • Zanzibar. Public Health Department.
Date:
[1931]
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Credit: Annual report of the Public Health Department / Zanzibar Protectorate. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    4. The shop and school were well patronised in 1931, and the wages fund was utilised to its limit every month. 5. In January a carpenter’s shop was instituted and placed in charge of a young leper who had been trained in the Government School in Zanzibar. Another leper volunteered to be taught by him and he was able to profit by this instruction until September when the carpenter was paroled. 6. Both the babies born on Funzi in 1931 thrived but left the settlement during the course of the year, one going to relatives, and the other leaving with its parents when they were paroled. 7. During the year the settlement was visited ten times by the Provincial Commissioner or Acting Provincial Commissioner, and twice by the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services who on his second visit was accompanied by Dr. Wade of the Culion Leper Settlement in the Phillipine Islands. Dr. Wade’s visit was much appreciated by the staff and many interesting points of diagnoses and treatment were learnt. 8. In the course of the year presents in kind were received from His Excellency the British Resident; the Captain of H.H.S. Cupid; the Captain, Chief Officer, and 2nd Officer of H.H.S. Khalifa; Mrs. Majid; the Rev. Father Weigall and ladies of the U.M.C.A.; and the Agriculture Department. 9. The following tables give statistical particulars of the asylum during the past year: — M. F. Total. Number of Lepers in Asylum 1st January, 1931 67 45 112 Number of new cases admitted during 1931 16 3 19 Number of lepers re-admitted during 1931 4 — 4 Number of deaths in Asylum 10 16 26 Number paroled from Asylum as below :— M. F. To Waiezo 9 2 22 8 30 To Homes 13 6 Number remaining in Asylum at beginning of 1932 • 53 26 79 M. F. Total. 87 48 135 85 50 135 APPENDIX ITT. Control of Opium. The following are the particulars regarding opium addicts: — Number of opium addicts remaining from the previous year Number of applications for permits during the year Number of permits granted during the year Number of permits refused during the year Number of permits cancelled— (a) Owing to death (b) Owing to other causes Number of opium addicts remaining at the end of the year 1929. M. F. 66 6 6 4 11 57 28 2 *2 5 24 Amount of opium issued to addicts during the year Amount received in payment for opium issued ozs. 358.08 Rs. 2,238-05 1930. 1931. M. F. M. F. 57 24 57 24 4 2 2 — .. 4 2 2 •r.- 5 0 ' 2; — 56 26 57 24 ozs. ozs. 429 455 Rs. Rs. 2,598-75 2,843-12