Annual report of the Medical Department / Colony of the Gambia.

  • Gambia. Medical Department.
Date:
[1943]
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Credit: Annual report of the Medical Department / Colony of the Gambia. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    9- Two new experiments were initiated with considerable success:— (a) A midwife has been appointed to Basse where the first Health Centre with Dispenser, Midwife and Sanitary Inspector congre¬ gated in a single unit, has been started. (b) As in paragraph 10. B. Communicable Diseases. 10. Trypanosomiasis—Arising out of Captain MacGowan’s report, published as an appendix to the Annual B.eport of 1942, the Bwiam Circuit was designed to diagnose and to give treatment to that area of the South Bank Province between Bwiam and Gunjur. Treatment has been continued at all Hospitals and four new Dispensaries. A total of seventy-four cases were treated in the last three months of the year. The high attendances confirm the need for further extension of medical treatment in the villages of the Protectorate. A Conference of Heads of Medical Departments of the British West African Colonies, with representatives of French and Belgian Colonies, was held in Lagos. Becommendations for co-operation which were made at the Conference are being put into practice. 11. Malaria.—The year showed a decline compared with the previous two years. The total number of cases treated was 2,576- 12- Veneral Disease.—Total number of cases 144. Clinics were opened at Bakau and Brikama during the year. C. Vital Statistics- I. General African Population. 13. These figures are for Bathurst only:— Estimated Population Births (live) Total Deaths Total Still Births Deaths under one year ... Birth Bate ... !.. Death Bate Infantile Mortality Bate Still Birth Bate 14,900 approximately 539 533 70 95 36.17 per 1,000 of popula¬ tion 35.77 y) 176.25 ,, ,, live births 114.9 ,, ,, total births. Owing to local conditions complete accuracy of Vital Statistics cannot yet he assured.