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B. Legislation.
6. The following legislation affecting the public health was enacted during the year: -
(I) Ordinancen :
(2) Quarantine and Prevention of Diseases (Amendment)
Ordinaure, No. 2 of 1947.
(b) Public Health (Sanitation) Amendment Ordinance, No.
6 of 1947.
(e) Urban Council (Transitional Provisions) Amendment
Ordinance, No. 24 of 1947.
(d) Midwives Amendment Ordinance, No. 30 of 1947.
(II) Orders, Rules, Regulations and By-laws:
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() Nurses Regulation Ordinance, 1931 (Amendment of regulations relating to retention fee) G.N. No. 36 of 1947. (b) Public Health (Food) Ordinance, 1935 (Amendment of by-laws re Slaughter houses) G.N. No. 218 of 1947.
(0) Public Health (Sauitulion) Ordinance, 1985 (By-laws for
Private Mortuaries) G.N. No. 243 of 1947.
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(2) Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, 1935 (The Dangerous Drugs
Trdinones [Application] Order) G.N. No. 260 of 1947.
C. Finance.
... Mevenue and Expenditure; ·
Total expenditure by the Medical Department
during the year was
******... $7,877,044.45 Revenue collected during the same period was $ 949,991.37 These Byures nampare with #7,807,876.08 and #612,906.16
respectively for 1946.
8.
Alteration in Scales of Fees for the General Publis.
(a) In March an increase was made in the charges for
operations and muturnity cases, ·
(5) In April the scale of charges for pathological and
bacteriological examinations was raised.
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(e) ́In June a slight increase in the maintenance and medical treatment charges in Governuwent Hospitala was made to cover the increased cost of food.
9. Alteration in. Feed for Government Servants.
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(2) In March alterations were made in the charges for dental treatment, the principle adopted being that the charges were designed to cover the cost of materials only.
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II-PUBLIC HEALTH.
General Remarks.
10. The health of the Colony during 1947 was good whether judged from a nutrition angle or from the morbidity and mortality statistics.
11. The rapid increase in the population which was much a fosture of 1946 was not so apparent in 1947 and it seemed likely that in the latter part of the year there was a drop; but in the absence of a canons, population estimates are very unreliable,
12. The most remarkable feature of the year was the complete absence of local cholern cuses, for the first year since 1936.
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With the petering out of the smallpox epidemic in the spring no further cases occurred and the most serious epidemic was one of cerebro-spinal meningitis.
14. Sample nutrition surveys failed to reveal evidence of gross nutritional disease even among the purest sections of the population.
DE-VITAL STATISTICS.
A. Population.
16. Any estimate of the population at the present time can be little better than an intelligent guess. At the last census in 1981 the population was 864,117 and estimated by extrapolation methods the population at mid 1947 was 1,214,762. The violent artificial fluctuations that have occurred since 1931, however, render this figure unreliable and estimates based on food and water consumption and recorda of influx and ethus of population suggest that a higher figure is more likely. It is proposed to hold a census during 1948.
16. The population figure used for vital statistical purposes is that obtained by extrapolation methods.
B. Births.
17. The following table showa the number of births registered during the years 1940 to 1947 and the number of births registered monthly from October, 1945 to December, 1947:
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