Annual medical report / Colony and Protectorate of Kenya.

  • Kenya. Medical Department.
Date:
[1926]
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Credit: Annual medical report / Colony and Protectorate of Kenya. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (2) those aimed at the elucidation of a specific problem arising- in connection with these diseases. It was decided that the following- work should be com¬ menced this year. Malaria. Group I. Investigation. (a) Comparison and experimental control of mosquito conditions in a sisal estate, a mixed Native and European area, and a purely native area. (b) Comparison of infectivity rate of mosquitoes in these areas at different periods of the year. (c) Mosquito survey of Kenya. Group II. Investigation. (a) Intensive study of mosquito conditions in Nairobi in connection with control, infectivity of species, and larvicides. (b) Estimation of value for clinical diagnosis of malarial parasite cultiva¬ tion. (c) Estimation of value for clinical diagnosis of differential leucocyte counts. Plague. Group I. Investigations. (a) Flea survey of Kenya. (b) Wild rodent survey of plague areas of Kenya if official can be borrowed from South Africa. Group II. Investigations. (a) Comparison of protection afforded in experimental animals against lethal dose of plague bacilli by prophylactic inoculation of Kenya, South Africa and Haffkine’s vaccine. (b) Tests of protection afforded by prophylactic inoculation of Kenya vaccine when changes made in method of preparation. (c) Experiments in conjunction with sanitation division on flea and rat conveyance by maize and cotton seed. (d) Assisting sanitation division in experiments on feasibility of fumigating maize or cotton seed in bulk. Ulcers Group I. Investigation. (a) Examination of labour at Kalimoni Estate on various diets to compare incidence of ulcers. (b) Observation of ulcer cases at Kalimoni Estate under various methods of treatment. Group II. Investigations. (a) Investigation of selected cases illustrating various types of ulcer as regards bacteriology, histology and metabolism. (b) Examination of cases at Kalimoni Estate of injury by sisal thorns and sequence of events when wounds untreated. Yaws. Group II. Investigations. (a) Assistance to Medical Officer, i/c., V. D. Clinic, by estimation of results of Wassermann, Sigma and Kahn re-actions of cases before, during and at varying periods after various treatments to enable him to deter¬ mine the average number of doses of drugs required for complete cure, removal of clinical signs, or removal of infectivity, the rapidity of relapse after insufficient treatment, and the refractoriness to subsequent treatment of partially treated cases. (b) Estimation of relative values of Wassermann, Sigma, Kahn, Meinicke and other serological re-actions in diagnosis and in recording effect of treatment. Helminthiasis. Group I. Investigations. (a) Examination for Helminths of all labour on Kalimoni Estate and in¬ mates of Reformatory on admission and at regular intervals thereafter. (b) Estimation of relative efficiency and sick rate of groups of disinfested and infested labour at Kalimoni Estate and Reformatory. (c) Determination of rapidity of re-infestation at Kalimoni Estate and Reformatory before and after institution of various sanitary precautions.