Report on the public health / Southern Rhodesia.

  • Southern Rhodesia. Department of Health.
Date:
[1934]
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Credit: Report on the public health / Southern Rhodesia. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER V.—ADMINISTRATIVE. (1) Public Health Department. (a) Staff. 1. Doctors (Permanent Establishment, 29; Aided, 6) ... 35 2. Dentists. 2 3. Government Analyst. 1 4. General Nurses. 196 5. Mental Nurses. 16 6. Other European Staff. 62 7. Asiatic and Native Staff. 320 632 (b) Expenditure and Revenue. Total Expenditure. £187,536 Total Revenue . 34,530 Net Balance of Expenditure . £153,006 (c) Southern Rhodesia Nursing Service. There are 196 nurses employed in Government Hospitals, of whom 100 are qualified and 96 student nurses. There were 228 applications for 36 vacancies for student nurses, i.e., 6 candidates for each vacancy. Appoint¬ ments are made only from families who are living or have lived within the Colony. Amongst the qualified staff there wTere 115 applications for 21 vacancies. Ten of these appointments were given to nurses trained in the Government Service. There are not as yet sufficient of the latter to supply our needs. In addition to the above, there are 10 trained mental nurses and 6 untrained mental nurses at Ingutsheni Mental Hospital. During the year one nurse obtained her Sister Tutor’s Diploma at King’s College, and was subsequently appointed a Sister Tutor in the Service. One nurse obtained her certificate of training at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, London. One nurse wras awarded a Beit training grant to study midwifery and mothercraft. Several nurses obtained midwifery diplomas in hospitals outside the Colony. The need for the new midwifery training school, which is contemplated in Bulawayo, becomes more urgent each year. The death of a valued member of the Service, Miss E. J. Robinson, .is greatly regretted. The following were the results of the examinations held by the Southern Rhodesia Medical Council in the nurses’ training schools at Salisbury and Bulawayo Hospitals:— Number of Number Number candidates, successful. unsuccessful. Preliminary Examination . 28 24 4 Final Examination. 11 11* (*3 with honours) Gold Medals presented by the British Medical Association of Southern Rhodesia were awarded to the best student at the final examinations held in April and October. (2) Medical Council. The numbers on the registers at the end of 1934 are given below. Not all of these are resident in Southern Rhodesia : — Additions 1934. Total 31.12.34 Medical practitioners . Dental surgeons . Chemists and druggists Trained nurses. Mid wives . Mental nurses . 11 144 9 40 4 81 32 154 5 32 4