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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    EAST AFRICA PROTECTORATE. ANNUAL MEDICAL REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31st DECEMBER, 1913. The arrangement of the report is the same as that presented last year, the division of the country into four areas the conditions in which are more or less identical. This is done for convenience and compression in framing the necessary statistics. The total square mileage of the Protectorate is, approximately, 245,060 square miles—rather more than twice the size of the United Kingdom. This is divided up for administrative purpose into eight provinces. These eight provinces have, for the purposes of this report, been considered in groups of two, * making the above mentioned four areas. The officers of the Survey Department have very kindly prepared a coloured map showing the position and extent of these areas ; it does not pretend to any accuracy with regard to the provincial boundaries, being more of a diagram of the conditions which the report endeavours to contrast. Thus :— No. 1.— The Coast Area, coloured blue on the map, comprises the provinces of Seyidie and Tanaland, representing an approximate extent of 41,490 square miles. No. 2.—The Mountainous Area, coloured pink on map, contains :— The provinces of Ukarnba and Naivasha, the latter including the Uasin Gishu Plateau, and the newly thrown open Trans-Nzoia settlement. It represents fairly accurately that portion of the country most in favour with the