Report on the Medical and Sanitary Departments / Government of the Gold Coast.

  • Gold Coast. Medical Department.
Date:
[1921]
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Credit: Report on the Medical and Sanitary Departments / Government of the Gold Coast. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    LUNATIC ASYLUM STAFF. ! Chief Attendant. 1 Assistant Chief Attendant. 10 Attendants. 1 Matron. I Gatekeeper. MEMBERS OF SUBORDINATE STAFF OF THE SANITATION BRANCH. 1 Chief Clerk. 1 First Class Clerk. 4 Third Class Clerks. 2 Temporary Clerks. 1 Sanitary Inspector and Training Office . 1 Messenger. 4 First Class Sanitary Inspectors. 10 Second Class Sanitary Inspectors. 49 Third Class Sanitary Inspectors. 2 Female Sanitary Inspectors. 1 Disinfector Mechanic. 1 Storekeeper. 8 Attendants for Contagious Diseases Hospital. II Vaccinators. 1 Third Class Clerk to Deputy Registrar of Deaths. 3 Clerks to Deputy Registrar of Deaths. 18 Sextons. 2 Messengers. __ TABLE 2.—FINANCIAL. (a) STATEMENT OF REVENUE FOR THE YEAR, 1921. Revenue (Hospital fees) .. .. .. .. .. •• £3,f22 17s. 3d. (b) STATEMENT OF EXPENDITURE FOR THE YEAR, 1921. Medical Department (including Sanitary Branch)— Personal Emoluments .. .. .. .. .. . • £100,160 9 6 Other Charges .. .. .. .. .. •• •• 124,711 4 2 Total .£224,871 13 8 II. PUBLIC HEALTH. (a) GENERAL REMARKS. 3. The following table shews the most noteworthy contrasts in the returns of diseases treated during the years 1919, 1920, and 1921 :— ___ ] 1919. 1920. 1921. Small-pox • • •• •• •• •• •• •• •• 23 298 9 Chicken-pox .. .. • • • • • • • • • • 121 229 226 (Amoebic 18 • • Dysentery Bacillary . 7 , • • • • 1 Type undiagnosed 433 824 710 Enteric Fever . 9 12 41 Influenza • • •• •• •• •• •• •• •• 135 885 184 Tertian .. 645 823 904 Quartan 42 9 27 i Aesti vo-autumnal 460 676 1,832 Malaria Chronic 145 140 432 Blackwater 20 36 21 , Unclassified 2,446 3,021 2,730 Measles • • •• •• •• • • •• •• •• 14 149 19 Pneumonia • • •• •• •• •• •• •• •• 277 422 370 Rheumatic Fever 11 29 18 Sleeping Sickness 14 27 8 Whooping Cough .. . 72 126 118 Alcoholism . . . . . • . . • • • . . - • . 25 44 28 Yellow Fever .. 10 3 4 Tuberculosis .. 269 355 337 Plague • , . . •• •• •• •• •• •• • • • • • •