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.

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    ANNUAL SANITARY REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31st DECEMBER, 1918, BY THE MEDICAL SANITARY OFFICER. Section III. SANITATION. (A) General Review of Work done. 1. ADMINISTRATIVE. The Medical Sanitary Officer toured the Eastern and Northern Provinces, but subsequently went on leave to British East Africa for three months. The Medical Officer of Health, Kampala, was on duty the whole year and made tours of inspection through the Buganda Kingdom in connection with smallpox. The European Sanitary Inspector at Kampala, on his return from leave in May, was promoted to the post of Superintendent of Conservancy. This was done because of shortage of staff and to relieve the District Commissioner of some of his municipal duties and to give the European Sanitary Inspector more control over the sanitary services. In my opinion this has not proved satisfactory as it gives the latter too little time for inspection, etc., confines him too much to Municipal Office work, much of which has had little to do with Sanitation, and in consequence very few notices have been served to remove larvae and other insanitary conditions, and he has had no time for conducting prosecutions in Court, etc. An Assistant European Sanitary Inspector would relieve the situation. Laws Passed, Etc. The Township Rules were amended to improve lighting and ventilation of dwellings and cesspits, slaughter houses, etc. An extensive area was declared infected under the Infectious Diseases Ordinance (vide Smallpox) as were the Bukedi District and various towns as they became infected with Smallpox. By a Proclamation under the Sleeping Sickness Ordinance the two miles strip of prohibited area along Lake Victoria was reduced to one. The Factories Board, consisting of the Director of Public Works, the Director of Aoriculture, two unofficial members and the Medical Sanitary Officer as Secretary and Executive Officer, was appointed to control by means of the Factories Rules under the Diseases (Cotton and Other Trades) Ordinance, the construction of cotton ginneries, etc. Town Planning.—A Central Town Planning Board was constituted in December and includes the Principal Medical Officer (Chairman), the Director of Public Works, the Land Officer and the Medical Sanitary Officer as Secretary. 2. PREVENTIVE MEASURES. Mosquito and Inseot-Bobne Diseases. Malaria. i. Petty Anti-Malarial Measures. Anti-Malarial Gangs have been employed as formerly. A few mosquito traps of the pattern used in Panama have been made as an experiment and found satisfactory.