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APPENDIX I. .
Notes on the working of the Residency Dispensary, BM$h\reh for t\if ycq? 19&1.
The yenr was comparalively mild in all its seasons. The rainfall was upto average
and well distributed.
With good rains the water reservoirs attached to almost every house were filled and
provided all the conditions favourable to the breeding of mosquitoes. The Health
Authorities do 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 fulling off in the number of malaria cases, but malaria still
nocountod for 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 cases 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 pnd classes, bgt the effects
were more lasting in European children.
The uutnher of impatients and outdoor attendances in oomparison with those of 1933
were as follows ;■*-
Ip-patients. Out-pptients, Operating.

1933 24 10,873 181
1934 22 11,353 214
There was a marked increase in the nuwlXr? flf attendances for diseases of tbe Rpspira?
tory system and for eye diseases.
J. ROONEY, Major, I.M.S.,
Residency Surgeon, Bushire.

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