Annual report / Medical Department, Fiji.

  • Fiji. Medical Department.
Date:
[1946]
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Credit: Annual report / Medical Department, Fiji. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    nevitable and not unusual, has given a strong directive that the potential of recruiting educable youths in nursing and the elements of medicine, to reinforce the staffs of hospitals and dispensaries should be exploited. F.—Assistant Health Inspectors. 131. An advance from the apprenticeship system of training to a more systematic and organized course of study has proved impracticable owing to the lack of suitable training quarters and instructional staff. A total of three were in training, all in their first year. G.—Assistant Laboratory Technician. 132. Deliberate training of well-educated youths in laboratory technicology was inaugurated by the Pathologist at the beginning of the year. Four students were in training and of these one could not make the grade and had to be discharged. One critical complication, and an important one from the point of view of direction of training, was that the students had to be taught the elements of physics and chemistry before they could be brought to appreciate the rationale of laboratory procedure. This, of course, is common to all technical training at present. H.—Assistant Pharmacists. 133. The Government Pharmacist undertakes the training of local youths as Assistant Pharmacists. A systematic course of lectures is given and practical work is provided in the Central Pharmacy and the Dispensary of the Colonial War Memorial Hospital. Three students were in training and of these the only one in the final year was successful in passing the qualifying examinations. SECTION IX—METEOROLOGY. 134. A representative extract from the meteorological reports of the Colony is quoted in Appendix XII.