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APPENDIX I. .
ftotes oh the working of the Residency Dispensary,
The year was comparatively mild in all its seasons,
and well distributed.
Bashire, for the year- 193,4>
The rainfall was upto average
-n • * h ?, amS ,^ e wa ^ er reservoir s attached to almost every house were filled and
pr vided all the conditions favourable to the breeding of mosquitoes. The Health
Authorities clo not undertake any anti-malarial work, and it would be difficult to deal
with the private reservoirs, as the inhabitants depend almost entirely on these for drinking
water. There was a slight falling off in the number of malaria cases, but malaria still
accounted lor over a third of the number of attendances.
In November and December there was an outbreak of influenza which was, on the
whole, mild. Most eases were left with an extremely irritating cough but some cases deve
loped bronchopneumonia. This accounted for an increase of nearly five hundred attend
ances for respiratory diseases. The epidemic affected all ages and classes, blit the effects
were more lasting in European children.
Ihe number of in-patients and outdoor attendances in comparison with those of 1933
were as follows :—
In-patients. Out-patients. Operations.
1933 .. .. ... 24 10,873 181
1934 .. 22 11,353 214
There was a marked increase in the number of attendances for diseases of the Respira
tory system and for eye diseases.
J. J. ROONEY, Major,
Residency Surgeon, Bushire.
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