Medical Officer's annual report [to] Durban Corporation.

  • Durban (South Africa). Public Health Department.
Date:
[1939]
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Credit: Medical Officer's annual report [to] Durban Corporation. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    -15- VACCINATIQN (Courtesy, Deputy Chief Health Officer). The following vaccinations of local residents were carried on during the Infant year Vaccination 12 Year Old Vaccination Successfully vaccinated 1333 885 Insusceptible to Vaccination 65 128 Postponed owing to illnes is 390 32 Exempted -under Act 15 of 1958 171 75 TUBERCULOSIS. European Coloured Native’ As iatic (a) Pulmonary: Local Cases 100 (70) 42 (64) 338 (362) 239 (209) Imported Cases 9 (8) 1 (5) 41 (126) 14 (20) (b) Non-Pulmonary: Local Cases 9 (1) 3 (2) 38 (40) ro (22) Imported Cases - (1) 1 (-) 2 (4) 1 (2) (c) Deaths Recorded: Pulmonary (Local) 43 (36) 14 (25) **86 (136) 147 (103) (imported) 15 (-) 3 (-) 250 (289) 15 (17) Non Pulmonary.(Local) 7 (6) 2 (5) 15 (13) 16 (19) (imported) 3 (-) — (-) 24 (62) 1 (3) * Natives resident and employed in Durban for not ; less than three months prior to notification. ** Corrected for ’permanent* domicile in rural areas of origin (ex-borough) N.B. See Section 16 for special comments. (Page 18). Health Visiting. The contacts of every European and Coloured case are followed-up by Health Visitors and induced to attend the Tuberculosis clinic for examination. Every contact found to be affected by Tuberculosis is kept under observation. Many visit the clinic whilst suitable cases are admitted to King George V Hospital. With very few exceptions, all communicable cases unsuitable for home isolation have been admitted to hospital. Undernourished and poorly developed child-contacts are sent to the Preventorium in Pietermaritzburg. Records and progress notes are kept regarding every known European and Coloured case, whether an out-patient at the clinic or an in-patient in hospital. Out-patients who show a tendency to default are re-visited and encouraged to attend the clinic regularly. Kins Georae V Jubilee Hospital for Tuberculosis. This institution was opened in January, 1959, Europeans and Coloured patients formerly treated at Addington Hospital now being admitted to this new sanatorium” hospital. It/....