Medical and sanitary report / Government of the Gold Coast.

  • Gold Coast. Medical Department.
Date:
[1912]
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Credit: Medical and sanitary report / Government of the Gold Coast. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The sum of £11,055 was voted for scavengers and labourers who were employed in towns not under the Town Councils Ordinance, at the following Stations Return of Scavengers and Labourers Employed by the Sanitary Department during the Year 1912. Station. Number. employed. Remarks. Aburi 11 At Accra, Cape Coast and Seccondee, scaven- Accra 86 gers and labourers were supplied by the Adawso 11 Town Councils. Addah 18 Akuse 32 In addition, 82 men were, however, employed Annamn'oe 4 at Accra for mosquito-brigade work, and Appain 11 4 men at th-^ Accra Cantonments, and paid Axira 43 byT the Government. Cape Ceas — C h i m a 6 J'ixcO'S 5 Dodowah ... 15 Dunkwa ... 11 Elmina 13 Komfrodua 7 Kpong 5 Kwanyako 6 Mampong ... 6 Mangoase ... 5 Nsaba 6 Usawam ... 16 Nyakrom 6 Oblogo 6 Oduma.se ... 5 Pakro 6 Pram Pram 5 Prestea 6 Quittah 18 Saltpond ... 37 Seccondee ... . Soadru 11 Somanya ... 13 Tarquah ... 53 Weshiang ... 6 • Winnebah ----- ; 38 Total . 527 Ihe majority of the above labourers were employed upon what is usually described as mosquito-brigade work, that is in removing any conditions likely to favour the breeding of mosquitoes. Plague. Xo case of this disease was reported during the year, nor were any of the rats examined at the Government Laboratory found to be infected. Preventive measures have comprised efforts to destroy rats by trapping, and by poisoning with barium carbonate, but the results from the latter method have been disappointing. C onsideiable piogiess has been made with the town planning schemes loth at Accra and Seccondee, and these measures, taken in conjunction with the greater attention being paid to building construction all over the Colony, may also be included under the category of Plague Preventive Measures. . . ^ am given to understand that Professor Simpson was unable to trace the origin of the 1908 outbreak of Plague in this Colony, or to find anv evidence r