Report of the Director of Medical Services / British Guiana.

  • British Guiana. Medical Department.
Date:
[1942]
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Credit: Report of the Director of Medical Services / British Guiana. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Poyaf Sanitary Institute Library. BRITISH GUIANA. C.S.O. 71/4 r. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF MEDICAL SERVICES FOR THE YEAR 1942. CONTENTS. I.—FINANCIAL - Revenue & Expendituie 1- 3 II.—VITAL STATISTICS ... 4-11 Ill—GENERAL REMARKS ... 12-22 IV—HYGIENE AND SANI- TATION 23-31 V—PUBLIC HEALTH EDU- CATION 35 VI—TOWN AND DISTRICT PLANNING 36-38 VII—GENERAL DISEASES— Nephritis 39 Respiratory Diseases ... 40 Bronchitisand Broncho- Pneumonia 41 Diseases of the Heart... 42 Bowel Diseases (exclud¬ ing the Enterics and Dysenteries) 43 Cancer and other Malig- nant Tumours 44 mi.—COMMUNICABLE DIS¬ EASES— Malaria 45—46 Influenza 47 Tuberculosis (all forms 1 48 Enteric Fever (including Typhoid and Para- Typhoid) 49 Chicken Pox 50 Diphtheria 51 Pueperal Fever 52 Small Pox 53 Trachoma 54 Tetanus 55 Yaws 56 Ankylostomiasis 57 Yellow Fever 58-59 Leprosy 60-62 Filariasis - 63 Erysipelas 64 Ophthalmia Neonatorum 65 Measles 66 Venereal Diseases 67-73 Table showing diseases treated in the seven General Hospitals ... • • • IX.--THE BOARD OF EX¬ AMINERS, CHEMISTS AND DRUGGISTS ... 74-76 APPENDIX I. Page. Paragraph. Summary of the Annual Report of the Central Medical Laboratory, Georgetown. BRITISH GUIANA. ANNUAL MEDICAL REPORT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31st DECEMBER, 1942. I.—Revenue and Expenditure. 873,495.20 310.62 801.50 22 22.50 2.00 2.44 2,805.40 442.82 1,067.99 400.70 2,448.00 3,345.63 370.50 1. The following is a statement of Revenue for the year 1942 :— Hospitals and Dispensaries Sale of Milk Badges Visiting Fees Port Health Officer Auction Duty Affidavit Fees ... Sale of Quinine Sale of Official Publications Houses (including Colony lands) Interest— General Sale of Opium ., Sundry Reimbursements Miscellaneous... Anti-Aedes Campaign Malariological Survey Chemists and Druggists Examinations 2. The following is a comparative statement of Expenditure for the past three years :— 1940. 1941. 1.942. - 8799,416.09 8964,722.65 81,099,775.00 3. The percentage of actual expenditure of Medical and Public Health Services to actual revenue of the Colony was :— 1940. 1941. 1942. H.4% 9.b% 9.7% II.—Vital Statistics. 4. The population on the 31st December, 1942, as estimated by the Registrar-General, was 361,754 /males 181,017, females 180,737). 5. There were 13,835 births and 6,233 deaths. The natural increase of population was 7,602. 6. The number of emigrants (4,982) exceeded the number of immigrants (4,915) by 67. 7. The actual increase in the population for the year was 7,535 as compared with 7.237 in 1941. 8. Births.—13,835 births (7,028 males and 6,807 females) were registered. This is equivalent to a birth¬ rate of 38.2 per 1,000 of the population, as compared with 35.4 in 1941 and 34.7 in 1940. 9. The number of still-births registered was 691, a ratio of 5.0 per 100 children born alive. The corres¬ ponding figure for 1941 was 4.5. Printed by the Authority of His Excellency the Governor at Georgetown, Demerara, by Printers to the Government of British Guiana 2*o. 17,914. The Argosy ” Company, Limited