Report on the public health / Southern Rhodesia.

  • Southern Rhodesia. Department of Health.
Date:
[1947]
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Credit: Report on the public health / Southern Rhodesia. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The smaller authorities restrict their activities to the problems of environ¬ mental health, meat and food inspection, water supplies and the treatment of infectious and venereal disease. The two cities, on the other hand, provide a comprehensive health service for their areas, including maternity and child welfare, health visitors, infectious diseases hospitals for Europeans, immunisation clinics and the other services offered by modern urban public health practice. The Central Government makes substantial contributions towards the cost of these services. The following precis will give some indication of the scope of the services performed by the two larger local authorities:— Salisbury Bulawayo 1946-47 1945-46 Admissions, European Infectious Diseases Hospital 163 375 Admissions, Native Infectious Diseases Hospital . 1,639 755 Admissions, Native V.D. Hospital . 1,686 1,545 Attendances, Native V.D. Clinics. 27,898 91,353 New cases of syphilis in Africans. 1,492 964 New cases of gonorrhoea in Africans .. 1,201 2,957 Medical examination of Africans in employment . 45,727 23,533 Laboratory investigations . 20,277 (a) Cases seen at ante-natal clinics—all races . Infant and child welfare clinics attendances—all 3,338 3,635 races . 27,597 16,760 Diphtheria immunisation . (a) 2,801 Vaccination . 30,471 5,863 Visits by Health Visitors . 8,591 7,932 Inspections by Health Inspectors . Total admissions of Africans to local authority 35,405 (a) hospitals . 4,029 2,964 Estimated European population .. . 17,000 15,200 Estimated Coloured and Asiatic population . 1,740 1,774 Estimated Native population . 49,056 30,244 (a) Figures not given. CHAPTER V.—ADMINISTRATION AND MISCELLANEOUS. (1) Staff (Establishment). 1. Medical Officers— 4 At Headquarters (Medical Director 1, Health Officers 2, Field Officer JL, Schools Medical Officers 4) . 8 In Districts (Senior Government Medical Officers 5, Govern¬ ment Medical Officers 45, Aided Government Medical Officers 4) . 54 Specialists (Directors of Laboratories 2, Pathologist 1, Super¬ intendents Mental and Leprosy Institutions 3, Radio¬ logists 3, Psychiatrists 1) . 10 Resident Medical Officers . 11 Total. 83 2. Dental Surgeons . 5 3. Analytical Chemists . 4 4. Pharmaceutical Chemists: At Headquarters . 4 Medical Store . 5 At Hospitals (Hospital Secretaries 7, Dispensers 2) . 9 Total. 18 5. Health Inspectors . 17 6. Laboratory Technical Assistants . 17 7. Medical Entomologist . 1 8. Anti-malaria Officer, Victoria Falls . 1 9. Nurses (Staff Matron 1, Matrons 26, Sisters Tutor 5, Sisters 54, Qualified General Nurses 205, District Nurses 10, Mental Nurses 45, Student Nurses 172) . 518 10. Orthopaedic Technician . 1 11. Radiographers (including learners) . 20