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APPENDIX I.
NOTES ON THE WORKING OF THE RESIDENCY DISPENSARY,
BUSHIRE, FOR THE YEAR 1938.
1. Lieutenant-Colonel J. J. Rooney, I.M.S., was in charge throughout
the year.
2. 1st Class Assistant Surgeon R. Easey, I.M.D., was in sub-chargo
throughout the year.
3. Nothing of note occurred during the year. A mild epidemic of Measles
started in Doccmbcr.
4. The hot weather was one of the most trying on record. Twenty-six
deaths from Heat-stroke were reported, amongst the local inhabitants.
Prior to 1938 deaths from Heat-stroke were extremely rare in spite of the
notoriously bad climate.
5. The number of indoor and outdoor patients compared with those of
1937 were as follows :—
In- Out­ Operations.
patients. patients.
1937 G 11,339 207
1938 15 13,9(59 2(51
Malaria, as usual, was the most prevalent disease and accounted for
more than a quarter of the total admissions and attendances.
J. J. ROONEY, Lieut.-Colonel,
Residency Surgeon.