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eight other government medical officers; there were also four 

 subsidized medical missionaries and one subsidized doctor. The 

 hospital system consisted of three government hospitals at Lobatsi, 

 Serowe, and Francistown, each with some four beds for Europeans 

 and twenty for natives, and five smaller mission hospitals; whilst a 

 hospital at Maun was in process of erection by the Seventh Day 

 Adventists, and a hospital at Sofula was projected by the London 

 Missionary Society. Both the projects were made possible by 

 grants from the Colonial Development Fund. 



There were in 1936, 1,751 hospital in-patients and 70,933 atten- 

 dances, of which 27,196 were first attendances at government and 

 medical mission hospitals and out-stations. Government health 

 services accounted for an expenditure of /^20,i26 out of a total for the 

 Protectorate of /^i 67,3 10 (year ending March 1937). Medical mission 

 work is subsidized to a small extent. The native population was given 

 as 260,064, Asiatic 66, coloured 3,727, European 1,899. 



Sir A. W. Pim (Bechuanaland 1933) commented on the insuf- 

 ficiency of the service, especially in the west and north of the 

 territory, where practically no medical assistance existed, and 

 recommended the extension of dispensaries and the training of 

 native nurses and other subordinate staff. A sanitary inspector 

 has since been appointed for work in village conditions. A special 

 grant from the Chamber of Mines was made for the training of 

 native nurses and dispensers in 1935, and by 1936 the scheme was 

 in operation. In order to make medical facilities available in 

 some of the outlying parts of the protectorate two travelling dis- 

 pensary units, each consisting of two lorries, a medical officer, 

 European chauffeur-mechanic, native dispenser-interpreter, and 

 native driver, were put into commission during 1936; total atten- 

 dances at them numbered 2,591 (Bechuanaland 1936, D.R.). 



In Swaziland little medical work was done before the Nazarine 

 Mission opened the Raleigh Fitkin Memorial Hospital at Bremers- 

 dorp in 1926. In the sam.e year the Wesleyan Mission opened a 

 smaller hospital at Mahamba. This was followed by a small 

 government hospital at Aliatikulu, and in 1931 the small mixed 

 government hospital at M'Babane was replaced by a new one, 

 with three European and twenty-eight native beds (Swaziland 

 1932). In the view of Sir Alan Pim these facilities were ade- 



