Annual medical and sanitary report / Uganda Protectorate.

  • Uganda Protectorate. Medical Department.
Date:
[1921]
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Credit: Annual medical and sanitary report / Uganda Protectorate. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    NATIVE. A varying number of Native Attendants including :— Hospital and Dispensary Attendants, &c. Plague Inspectors. Isolation Hospital and Camp Attendants. Sleeping Sickness Inspectors. Clerks and Interpreters. Menial Staff. Native Vaccinators. (2) Shortages on Establishment :— At the beginning of the year there were the following shortages on Establish¬ ment :— (a) Europeans. (b) Asiatics. 8 Medical Officers. . 12 Sub-Assistant Surgeons. 3 Medical Officers of Health. 4 Compounders. 1 Assistant Bacteriologist. 1 Eaboratorv Assistant. 2 Nursing Sisters. 1 Nursing Sister, Venereal Diseases. 1 European Superintendent, Do. Of the 11 vacancies for Medical Officers and Medical Officers of Health, 6 were filled by appointments in England, the Medical Officers arriving in the country on various dates between June and October. One Medical Officer was engaged locally in January and one in October, and arrangements were made in May for one of the Church Missionary Society’s Doctors to do part time work in the Kigezi District. The Assistant Bacteriologist arrived in October and the Laboratory Assistant in March. One vacancy for a Nursing Sister was filled by a local appointment in December. . The Nursing Sister, Venereal Diseases, arrived in September, and the European Superintendent in April. Nine of the vacancies for Sub-Assistant Surgeons and the four vacancies for Compounders were filled during the year, three of the latter during the last four months of the year. N.B.—The shortages due to absence on leave are not included in the above. The Establishment of 15 Medical Officers has proved to be inadequate. There are 19 Medical Stations in 15 Districts, so that the establishment does not provide 1 Medical Officer for each station even if no one ever went on leave or fell sick, and at least 3 Medical Officers are now required for Kampala and neighbour¬ hood. A minimum of 25 Medical Officers for general purposes, 6 for Venereal Diseases purposes, 1 for Sleeping Sickness purposes, and 4 Medical Officers of Health for sanitation purposes (total 36) is required. In Table B is shown how the staff was distributed in the various districts on the last day of the year. (3) Appointments, Changes, etc., in Staff :— A ppointments :— Captain H. N. Felly, Temporary Medical Officer ... 7- 5-21 Dr. W. P. Kelly, Do. ... 19- 6-21 Dr. M. Lamont, Do. ... 19- 6-21 Dr. H. G. Cimino, Do. ... 27- 6-21 Captain J. E. Brooks, Temporary Medical Officer, seconded fromR.A.M.C. ... ... ... ... 4- 8-21 Dr. J. C. Caldwell, Temporary Medical Officer ... l- 9-21 Dr. R. G. Griffin, ‘ Do. ... 11-11-21 Captain P. H. Rawson, m.c., Do. ... not yet arrived Captain C. G. Timms, m.c., Do. ... not yet arrived Miss M. Martin, Assistant Bacteriologist ... ‘ 1- 9-21