Annual report on the medical services / Sierra Leone.

  • Sierra Leone. Medical Department.
Date:
[1944]
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Credit: Annual report on the medical services / Sierra Leone. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    From August to November, a most thorough examination of people in Soa, Gbane Kando and Mafindo Chiefdoms was done followed by treatment )f all infected patients. Table I below shows the findings :— TABLE I. No. of Chiefdom Population Blood S. S. Per Cent. E. P. Total Per Cent. Examined Films taken Cases E. P. treated 1944 Cases 1944 E. P. r 50a 5,612 2,847 192 33 77 269 4*5 ibane Kando 1,458 1,458 115 7-8 8 123 8*3 dafindo 3,224 1,745 0/ 1 *7 1 58 1*7 In addition to the 450 cases in the above Table, 869 cases of Sleeping Sickness were treated at the dispensaries, making a total of 1,319. Sampling surveys were done in August and September. Table II below ihows the incidence of Sleeping Sickness and Yaws :— TABLE II. Chiefdom No. Examined j s. s. Cases Per cent. Pr. and Sec. Yaws Per Cent. Ter. Yaws Per Cent. Total Yaws Per Cent. Ynguia 3,629 23 0-6 173 4.8 146 40 319 8*8 ibene 2,481 5 0*2 12 0*5 98 3*9 110 4 4 uama 942 0 — — — 53 56 53 5 6 Jpper Bambara 584 2 03 4 07 51 87 55 9*4 )ia 650 3 0-5 1 0-15 49 7*5 21 7*7 lalema 2,030 1 005 3 0-2 70 34 73 36 lando 1,163 0 — 2 0*2 71 61 73 6*3 [awi 3,027 2 007 2 0*1 144 4*7 146 4*8 The position regarding Sleeping Sickness appears to be satisfactory, but onstant vigilance will have to be exercised for many years. More work Leeds to be done regarding the incidence of symptomless blood-positive cases li all the areas treated; the prophylactic and therapeutic effect of the dia- lidines and other drugs; an attempt made to decide the nature of he reservoir of infection; investigation of the breeding places and habits of setse flies ; study of the man-fly contact; and consideration given to the uestion of clearance schemes. In Liberia the full extent of Sleeping Sickness is not known, but the acidence in many places near the Sierra Leone boundary is certainly much igher than in this country thus forming a constant source of re-infection. I aws. 27,032 cases in all were treated. In the Sleeping Sickness and raws Campaign, the following re-surveys were recorded :— Kissi Tungi (part) ... Kissi Teng Kissi Kama Mobai area Soa ... ... 1944 Incidence Per Cent. 0*1 2*0 3*0 2’0 20*2