Medical and sanitary report / Bahamas.

  • Bahamas. Medical Department.
Date:
[1935]
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Credit: Medical and sanitary report / Bahamas. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (a) Repairs New Ward and Matron’s Quarters (b) Boiler and Stove (c) Operating Table (d) New Ambulance 18. Printing and Contingent £ 257 5 1 38 15 10 77 16 3 303 11 3 93 66 11 £ 14701 1 11 Relief and Miscellaneous Returns, The number of paupers in receipt of fre6 rations at the end of the year was 562, viz.: New Providence 102, Out Is¬ lands 460. The following places did not requisition for supplies during the year: Andros, Watlings, .Moore’s Island, and Sandy Point. The following miscellaneous returns are of interest: 1935 1934 Amount of foodstuff issued for relief lbs.42742 lbs. 1461 5 Pauper passages paid 264 207 No. of Ambulance calls No. of treatments at Out Patients” 2020 1726 Dept. No. of Prescriptions made up at 22105 23718- Dispensary 26285 31372 Average No. of patients per day 225 216 No. of admissions to Hospital 3036 2803- Deaths 2M 286 No. of treatments at Dental Clinic Typhoid Inoculations given at Out 991 954 Patients’ Dept. 4592 4710 Water consumption was alarmingly high during the first and second quarters, approximating to something over 80 gallons daily per resident head of population. An overhaul of the system and a daily reading of the meters has cheeked waste and reduced consumption in the third quarter to 1450 gallons a day or 45 gallons per head of population.