Annual medical and sanitary report / Swaziland.

  • Swaziland. Medical Department.
Date:
[1960]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Annual medical and sanitary report / Swaziland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    - 54 - Miss Cole, who had been Matron of the Colony since 1948 was granted the M.B.E. by Her Majesty the Queen in the Birthday Honours last June. Patients and staff re¬ joiced at this worthy recognition of her faithful service amongst them. 1* Staff. Dr. David Hynd, C.B.E., MedicalSuperintendent, Miss Mary Bagley, S.R.N.,S.C.M., Matron, Miss Betty Mamba, Nurse, Rev. Samuel Dlamini, Chaplain and Liaison Of fic er, Mrs. Prisca Manana Teacher 2 Labourers Miss Cole proceeded on overseas leave in March and we wer-e fortunate in having Miss Bagley to take her place. I make fortnightly visits from the Hospital at Bremersdorp for therapeutic and administrative purposes and I am assisted by the clerical staff of the Raleigh Pitkin Memorial Hospital in the running of the Colony. The Colony is run as a department of the Raleigh Pitkin Memor¬ ial Hospital, Bremersdorp, and thus receives gratuitously the services of the Medical Superintendent and its clerical staff. II. Financial. The following is a statement of the running of the Colony for the year ending 30th April I960 Pood £421. 7. 1. General Supplies 246. 8. - Salaries and Wages 832. 14. 6. Medical Supplies 177. 18. 8 Repairs 24. 11. 6 Travelling Expenses 81. 15. — Railage and Transport 75. 10. 5 Ambulance Maintenance 248. 6. 6 Ambulance Depreciation 62. 10. costs £2,168. 19. 6. The Government provides an annual grant of £1,574 for maintenance and the balance of expenditure is met from donations from the Mission to Lepers and the Church of the Nazarene. III. State During The Past Year. Number of Patients, December 1959 30 n m h »» i960 35 IV• ADDITIONS to population. Males Females Total. Admissions Re-Admissions 11 10 21 4 _4 8 15 /Losses • • I • « 14 29