Annual medical and sanitary report / Uganda Protectorate.

  • Uganda Protectorate. Medical Department.
Date:
[1918]
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Credit: Annual medical and sanitary report / Uganda Protectorate. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    17/46 (page 17)
    Section IV. METEOROLOGY. All available information under this head is embodied in the Blue Book. The lake level records at Entebbe for the year are as follows Highest. January ... ... ... 1T36 February ... ... ... 11-30 March ... ... ... 1120 April ... ... ... 11-26 May ... ... ... 11-31 June ... ... ... 11-30 July ... ... ... 11-28 August ... ... ... 11-14 September ... ... ... 10-92 October ... ... ... 10-84 November ... ... ... 10-74 December ... ... , ... 1070 Note.—The zero of the gauge is 3686-53 feet above mean sea level. Loiucst. 11-26 11-20 11-14 11-14 11-28 11-27 11-15 10 92 10-84 10-75 10-68 10-62 Section V. HOSPITALS AND DISPENSARIES. Accommodation. The hospital accommodation remains as shown in last year’s report. There is great need for two motor ambulances (one for epidemic work and one for ordinary work) at Kampala, and one motor ambulance at Jinja. In Kampala when smallpox wTas epidemic it was common to carry on a stretcher or hammock, for 8 to 12 miles, cases of smallpox in all stages of the disease, a state of affairs that is highly undesirable. There were three Isolation Camps at different parts of the suburbs, three, five and seven miles away respectively, from the Civil Hospital and Dispensary. Good housing of the staff is so intimately bound up with the health and comfort and hence contentedness of the staff that attention is drawn to the necessity for permanent houses for Medical Officers at Soroti, Masindi, Gulu and Lira. Next in urgency is the office of the Principal Medical Officer at Entebbe. At Kampala sooner or later a new Native Hospital will have to be built as well as the usual houses for Assistants and Attendants. At Jinja a large European Hospital and extra Native Hospital accommodation are needed, and a house for a Medical Officer of Health. At Mbale extra temporary native accommodation is urgent. I recommend temporary buildings as the removal of the station from its present site is under contemplation. If sanction is obtained to start a Medical School then a house for a Superin¬ tendent, and offices, class rooms, and living rooms for students attending the school must be allowed for.