Annual medical and sanitary report / Nigeria.

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

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    tion of the young. Copies are distributed at the office of the .Registrar of \ ital Statistics to relatives who come to register deaths. Apart from this copies are being distributed through the Director of Education to all schools, Government or otherwise, throughout the Southern Provinces. The leaflet was also translated into Yoruba by Dr. Sapara and printed copies are being distributed freely, in the same way as the one in English, for the benefit of those educated in the vernacular. \. Health 1 isitors.—The appointment of a woman Sanitary Inspector was recommended so as to get into touch with the women folk of the homes and advise them, a duty that is essentially one for a woman to carry out to be of the best advantage, and it is a matter now to be kept in view with the return of more normal times. YI. The Housing Problem.—Of the three recommendations put forward under this head there is not the slightest doubt that the one embodied in (c) is the one great solution, viz.: “That the layout of new townships in the neighbourhood “ be considered.” In handling this.subject the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services recognised the need of tackling the housing question when he said:— “I am sceptical as to any good results accruing from such “a campaign until the housing problem in Lagos is dealt “with in a practical manner.” At the present time the housing problem as a whole in Lagos is now receiving consideration, both for Europeans and for natives. A scheme for the layout of a new native location at Apapa is in hand and a scheme for the layout of an extension for natives, between Ebute Metta and Yaba, is in view with the object of providing accommodation and relieving the existing congestion in Lagos as well as for meeting the needs for increased commercial enterprise, which promises rapid strides in the future, and this must be kept in view. Hence recommendation (b): “That the question of building tenement houses be “ considered” is one also for due consideration so as to provide adequate sanitary accommodation on model lines for the working classes which can also then be kept under the best sanitary control. Such tenements for artisans, mill-hands, and others are provided in large centres, as the suburbs of .Bombay, etc. Hopes are now entertained that in the near future the medical and sanitary authorities will be able to report as to material advance having been made in the prospect of improved housing schemes for both Europeans and natives and that the new layout at Apapa and of an extension towards Yaba for natives will be an accomplished fact, progressing favourably. 42. Dysentery.—In Europeans, 40 cases were treated with no ‘deaths as compared to 34 cases treated in 1917. Amoebic Dysentery formed 85^0 of the cases.