Annual medical report / East Africa Protectorate.

  • East Africa Protectorate. Medical Department.
Date:
[1913]
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Credit: Annual medical report / East Africa Protectorate. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    V-HOSPITALS, DISPENSARIES AND INSTITUTIONS. 1— EUROPEAN HOSPITALS AT NAIROBI AND MOMBASA. At Nairobi the Nursing Staff consisted of one matron and three—subse¬ quently increased to five—nursing sisters, while Mombasa had in all three sisters, the total increase of staff for the year being two nursing sisters. In addition to this, it was necessary during the year to engage outside help on two occasions on account of the number of serious cases mostly enteric, in hospital, which required special nurses. One maniacal case (alcoholic) was transferred to the Lunatic Asylum. The longest residence of any one patient in Nairobi Hospital was 141 days, in Mombasa 46 days, due respectively to tuberculosis and fracture. TABLE SHOWING ADMISSIONS, DEATH-HATE, NUMBER OF BEDS, ETC., AT TLIE TWO HOSPITALS. 1913. 1912. 1911. Total number of beds* 29 29 29 Daily average occupied 16 11-5 8 Total number of admissions 347 276 230 Total number of days residence ... 5,946 4,368 3,718 Average residence to each patient 17-13 15-82 16-16 Discharged—Cured 273 227 173 Improved 55 38 43 Died... 14 11 14 Date-rate per cent. 4-03 3-99 6-09 * 7 at Mombasa, 22 at Nairobi. Of the admissions 194 were Officials and 53 Non-officials, giving a per¬ centage of 56 for the former and 44 for the latter. The prevailing diseases which came under treatment during the year were :— Malaria.—101 cases (39 of which were Officials), as against 92 last year, an admission rate of 4052 compared with 33’33 per cent, for 1912. There were three deaths, giving a death-rate for this year of 297, as against P08 per cent, of admissions in 1912. The great bulk of the cases came, as might be expected, from Mombasa, and were admitted during the second quarter of the year, the type being mostly subtertian. Blackwater fever.—Four cases were admitted during the year, two at each hospital, with also one death at each. The Nairobi cases were both imported ; neither were Officials. Of the two cases at Mombasa, one was an Official and one a missionary. This disease is the subject of a special report. Enteric.—Eighteen cases were treated during the year, as against 23 last year. Of these one died at Nairobi Hospital. The admission rate was 5T8 compared with 8‘33 per cent, for the previous year, and the death-rates respectively were 4‘34 per cent, and 17*39 per cent. The occurrence of the disease was pretty evenly distributed throughout the year, and its character