Medical and sanitary report / Government of the Gold Coast.

  • Gold Coast. Medical Department.
Date:
[1895]
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Credit: Medical and sanitary report / Government of the Gold Coast. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    APPENDIX 10. DEPORT ON THE DISPENSARY AT SALTPOND. 1. The Dispensary is situated, about the centre of the town, and in Commercial Road on the west side thereof, the lagoon being separated from it by the width of the street and the buildings on the east side of the street, a distance of GO yards; at night, or rather early morning, the effluvium from the lagoon is very perceptible in the Hospital. 2. The rooms are dark, and those in the ground floor used as consulting and dispensary have been uneven swish floors with rough walls and ceilings and the timbers of which collect much dirt, &c. 3. There is no room in which to examine private (such as gynaecological) cases and no operating couch. 4. There are insufficient shelves in the Dispensary, and the counter is much too high. 5. There is no place in which to keep dressings, &c., in use, and the instrument cupboard is placed on the ground and this is only available place in which to keep office papers, hooks, &c., and there are no pigeon holes or drawers in which to keep papers or stationery. 6. The hack verandah and stairs leading thereto, with the floor of the room occupied by the Dispenser are in my opinion structurally unsafe, the south lobby floor being in a similar condition. 7. That the instruments in the Hospital are, with few exceptions, in such a state from rust and other causes as to be useless. (Signed) J. SHEPLEY PART, Assistant Colonial Surgeon. Saltpond, 2nd January, 189G. No. L APPENDIX 11. GOLD COAST. From the Assistant Colonial Surgeon, Akuse, to The Chief Medical Officer. Dated ls£ January, 1896. SUBJECT: REPORT ON THE AKUSE DISPENSARY FOR 1895. 1. The progress which was made in 1894 towards establishing a Public Dispensary at Akuse and the encouragement accorded to the efforts of the Government by the necessitous poor, have been continued during the year 1895. 2. As the building provided for the use of the Medical Department, at the time of the opening of this institution was soon found to he quite unfit for the residence of the Surgeon, the Governor was pleased to grant this officer a separate allowance to enable him to obtain private quarters from the 14th of January, but it became at once manifest to the Government that both on the grounds of economy and utility that this house should be given up as soon as circumstance permitted and another secured which would serve as a Dispensary, Surgeon’s quarters and all the other requirements of the Department. 3. Considering the impossibility of getting a decent house at Akuse, it may be said that fairly suitable premises have been at length secured, and the Surgeon has been occupying a portion of them for some time past hut owing to their dilapidated condition and the extensive repairs required to be done in order to render them fit for all the purposes of the Medical Department it has not yet been possible to occupy them fully and the Dispensary work is still