Annual medical and sanitary report / Uganda Protectorate.

  • Uganda Protectorate. Medical Department.
Date:
[1916]
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Credit: Annual medical and sanitary report / Uganda Protectorate. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    19/48 (page 17)
    Section IV. METEOROLOGY. All available information under this head is embodied in the Blue Book. Section V. HOSPITALS AND DISPENSARIES. Accommodation. The hospital accommodation was as follows:—- Europeans.—There were two Government hospitals for Europeans, one at Entebbe and one at Jinja. The Entebbe hospital has four single-bed wards and one two-bed ward. At Jinja there is one single-bed and one three-bed ward, giving a total accommodation in the Protectorate of ten beds. Asiatics.—There was one Asiatic hospital at Entebbe with three beds. Apart from this, patients are treated in their own homes or in the native hospitals. Natives.—The accommodation for natives was as follows :— Entebbe Civil ... Entebbe Isolation Bombo Butiaba Gulu Fort Portal Hoima Kampala Jinja Masaka Masindi Mbale Mbarara Namasagali Soroti Total No. of Beds. 25 8 12 3 6 4 8 26 20 6 8 8 7 7 8 156 The hospital at Bombo was reserved entirely for military patients. The cases included in the statistical returns for Bombo are civilians treated at the dispensary. The buildings at Butiaba, Gulu and Fort Portal are of a temporary nature and those at Soroti are partly so. All native hospitals have a dispensary attached and there are in addition temporary dispensaries at Lira, Kitgum and Kabale, where also a few in-patients are treated. The dispensary at Kitgum was in charge of a native dresser only, owing to shortage of staff. For the same reason the hospital at Fort Portal, the dispensary at Kabale and the field dispensary at Arua in the West Nile District were closed.