Annual report of the Medical Department / Tanganyika Territory.

  • Tanganyika. Medical Department.
Date:
[1952]
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Credit: Annual report of the Medical Department / Tanganyika Territory. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    modernized to provide a maternity unit of eight beds; in addition a twenty-six bed women’s ward has been built. The inadequate out-patients’ departmen has been improved by the addition of a waiting verandah which relieves som( of the congestion inside. 161. With 165 African beds, the hospital at Moshi is among the larges in the Territory. A new isolation ward was added to the African hospital am another ward was renovated. Two quarters for female trained nurses wer< built and occupied. The work continues to expand and the daily averag< number of in-patients treated in 1952 was ten more than the previoui year. 162. The number of in-patients treated at Mbulu hospital has steadily increased since a medical officer was posted there in 1951, but the buildings ar< inadequate and in a state of ruin. During the year it became necessary tc abandon the operating theatre as unsafe and surgical operations are nov carried out in a temporary room formed by dividing off a portion of one o: the general wards with a curtain. A new hospital for Mbulu appears in the Development Estimates for 1953, a sum of £6,000 having been provided as a start. 163. The hospital buildings at Monduli were originally owned by the Native Authority, but at the beginning of 1952 they were handed over tc Government. They form a satisfactory little hospital unit which is becoming increasingly popular among the nomadic Masai whom it is designed to serv^e. 164. No major developments took place at Tanga Hospital during the year apart from certain improvements to the European block. On the other hand a new African nursing trainees’ hostel containing accommodation for approxi¬ mately forty girls was completed and is fully occupied. A sisters’ mess designed to furnish accommodation for thirty sisters in self-contained flatlets with provision for communal messing was begun during the latter part of the year and should be completed before the of end of 1953. 165. At Lushoto the inconvenient little hospital will, one day, have to be rebuilt. In the meantime, the present buildings were considerably improved during the year and a local benefactor presented the hospital with an excellent temporary ward in wood construction for non-African patients. On com¬ pletion, it will contain three single-bedded wards with a separate kitchen and sanitary accommodation. 166. Muheza hospital has a medical officer with special experience in leprosy. The purpose of this appointment is to supplement the existing general medical services with special provision for leprosy treatment. It is hoped that this side of the work at Muheza will steadily expand. Towards the end of the year work began at Muheza on the provision of a piped water supply for the hospital from a new dam being built by the Water Development Department. 167. Until the end of the year an assistant medical officer was stationed at Kingolwira Prison Farm hospital. Owing to a shortage of medically qualified officers, he has now been replaced by a medical assistant, additional cover being provided by regular visits from the District Medical Officer, Morogoro.