Annual report of the Medical Department / Nyasaland Protectorate.

  • Nyasaland. Medical Department.
Date:
[1953]
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Credit: Annual report of the Medical Department / Nyasaland Protectorate. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Annual Report of the Medical Department for the year 1953 SECTION I—ADMINISTRATION A. Staff I. The establishment was, on the w hole, well maintained during the year. The posts of Assistant Director of Medical Services (Health), Chief Health Inspector and one Health Inspector continued to be held in abeyance throughout the year as were the posts of Medical Officer (Leprosy) and Male and Female Mental Nurse. N Four Medical Officers arrived on first appointment, two of whom are on secondment from the United Kingdom Health Service, four Medical Officers left the service, two on resignation, one was invalided from the service and one left on the completion of a contract appointment. 3. It is with great regret that the untimely death of Dr. John Leycester Hardman, m.r.c.s., l.r.c.p., is recorded. Dr. Hardman was a promising and highly respected Medical Officer who was in his first tour of service. He bequeathed £1,000 and the value of his estate in Nyasaland to the Nyasaland Govern¬ ment for the purpose of building a medical or surgical unit in the Northern Province. 4. Mr. M. A. W. Roberts, b.a., m.b., ch.b., b.a.o., f.r.c.s.i., Senior Surgical Specialist, went on leave during July, pending retirement, after serving for 11 years in the Protectorate as Surgical Specialist. 5. Mr. Handley Laycock, m.a., m.b., ch.b., f.r.c.s. (Eng.), assumed duty as Surgical Specialist during November. Mr. R. M. Mitchell, m.b., ch.b., f.r.f.p.s. (Glas.), and Mr. E. J. Kir wan, m.b., ch.b., b.a.o., m.chir. (Galway), both acted as Surgical Specialist during the year. 6. Dr. C. H. Gurd, m.b., ch.b., m.r.c.p., d.t.m. & h., c.p.h., acted as Medical Specialist during the leave of the substantive holder of the post. 7. One Dental Surgeon arrived on first appointment. 8. Four Nursing Sisters resigned to get married and four Nursing Sisters arrived on first appointment. 9. Mr. V. Mahajan was promoted to Senior Sub-Assistant Surgeon with effect from 3rd August, 1953. Post Graduate Courses 10. Five Medical Officers attended post graduate courses in the course of the year. Dr. H. Mowschenson, m.d. (Prague), obtained the d.p.h. and the d.i.h., Dr. C. H. Gurd, m.b., ch.b., obtained the m.r.c.p.e., and the d.t.m. & h.; Dr. W. 0. Petrie, m.b.e., m.b., ch.b., d.t.m. & h., obtained the d.p.h. Honours II. Dr. W. 0. Petrie was awarded the m.b.e. (Civil Division) in the Coronation Honours List. Mr. Andrew Chipole was awarded a Certificate of Honour. B. Ordinances and Subsidiary Legislation 12. Ordinances 1953 The Mental Treatment (Amendment) Ordinance, 1953, amends the principal Ordinance of 1948, to make provision for the conditional discharge of quiet, well-behaved mental patients from the Mental Hospital to institutions approved by His Excellency the Governor. The measure enables mental patients, who require limited supervision and care that cannot be provided in the villages, to be discharged to the care of Mission organizations willing to undertake this service. It also enables conditional discharge to sheltered employment in approved institutions for those who require rehabilitation under supervision. Provision is also made for the appointment of a Medical Inspector to visit patients in approved institutions and lays upon the Inspector the duty to submit Reports to the Director of Medical Services on the progress of patients on conditional discharge. 13. Government Notices 1953 (a) Government Notice No. 2 defines the boundaries of the Lilongwe Planning Area under the Town and Country Planning Ordinance. 1948. (b) Government Notice No. 9 applies the Sanitary Board Rules to the Visanza Sanitary Area as defined in Government Notice No. 61 of 1952. (c) Government Notice No. 30 appoints an additional member to the Pharmacy and Poisons Board constituted under the Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance, 1942. (,d) Government Notices Nos. 78 and 79 regulate the brewing of beer and the keeping of domestic fowls in the Mzimba Sanitary Board Area. (e) Government Notice No. 93 lays down the boundaries of the African public cemetery in Blantyre under section 112 of the Public Health Ordinance, 1948. ( / ) Government Notice No. 97 appoints a Sanitary Board for the Namadzi trading centre. (g) Government Notices Nos. 98 and 251 lay down the scale of charges for medical treatment of in-patients and out-patients for Asians and Euro-Africans respectively. (/j) Government Notice No. 195 authorizes, and lays down the boundaries for a Mohammedan cemetery in Zomba.