Abstract
THE chief points of interest in the recently published annual report for 1939 of the Medical Department of Tanganyika Territory are the plans for the development of a native medical, nursing and public health service. The War has interfered with plans for nutritional investigations and relief for deficiencies, although a start has been made. As regards the incidence of various diseases the most important facts are as follows: the discovery of two fresh foci of sleeping sickness (663 cases with 184 deaths), cerebrospinal fever (2,183 cases with 237 deaths), the discovery of a plague-infected rat, and an investigation of smallpox. 248,533 cases of infectious and parasitic diseases were reported from various Government institutions. The most frequent diseases were as follows in the order named: yaws, malaria, syphilis, ankylostomiasis, gonorrhœa, schistosomiasis and tuberculosis. The population of Tanganyika in 1939 was: Europeans 9,165, Asiatics 33,974, and Africans 5,217,345.
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Health of Tanganyika. Nature 149, 107 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/149107a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/149107a0