Abstract
THE fourth Supplement to the Tropical Diseases Bulletin, December, 1934, contains summaries by Dr. Harold Scott of medical and sanitary reports relating to the year 1932 from British colonies, protectorates, and dependencies. The summaries give for each country the year's record of vital statistics, maternity and child welfare work, school hygiene, general sanitation, housing and town planning, etc., followed by particulars of the tropical diseases occurring in them, and the measures taken locally to combat them. The records show, on the whole, that in spite of retrenchments of medical staffs and curtailment of expenditure on public health services, the general health of the English communities has been well maintained, and no appreciable increase of sickness has occurred in the native communities. Retrenchment has had the effect of bringing to the fore the question of the local training of natives for medical duties. In the Gold Coast, a scheme for the training of nurse-dispensers has been instituted, and elsewhere medical schools exist where native practitioners have been successfully trained.
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Public Health in British Colonies in 1932. Nature 135, 839 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135839b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/135839b0