Annual report on the medical services / Sierra Leone.

  • Sierra Leone. Medical Department.
Date:
[1953]
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Credit: Annual report on the medical services / Sierra Leone. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    19—PATHOLOGICAL LABORATORY 91. The post of Pathologist remains vacant and during the Senior Pathologist^ absence on leave the laboratory service had to be restricted. 92. There has been difficulty in recruiting Laboratory Assistants-in-training and unless there is an immediate improvement it will be impossible to expand this service and provide further laboratory facilities in the Protectorate. A total of 50 250 examinations was performed in Freetown and Appendix I gives details of these examinations. In Bo a further 6,591 examinations were made. 93. The figures for the last three years are:— 1951 1952 1953 Examinations—Freetown .. 45,320 48,062 50,250 Examinations—Bo .. 4,498 4,946 6,591 20—HER MAJESTY’S PRISONS Daily average number of prisoners Admitted to hospital Deaths Out-Patients: New cases Subsequent attendances 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 554 629 418 433 437 302 166 269 289 193 8 3 2 1 6 11,751 7,877 9,270 6,067 6,731 50,057 29,643 28,897 18,485 16,047 21—CONCLUSION 95. The following appendices are given with this report:— Appendix I—Analysis of the laboratory investigations Appendix II—Government Hospitals and their bedstrength Appendix III—Attendances at Government Hospitals Appendix IV—Attendances at Government Dispensaries Appendix V—Mission and Mining Hospitals and Dispensaries and their bedstrength Appendix VI—Return of patients treated at Government Hospitals. T. P. EDDY, Acting Director of Medical Services. Medical Headquarters, Freetown.