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institution with the name of the Public Health Laboratory, Bula- 

 wayo, and it is expected that the scope of its work will be increased 

 (Southern Rhodesia 1936, D.R.). 



In 1937 government hospital accommodation was 580 beds for 

 Europeans and i,iii for non-Europeans and there were 8,040 Euro- 

 pean and 13,704 Asiatic and African in-patients, while out-patients 

 were 22,685 European and 44,521 Asiatic and African. There were 

 44 European medical officers and 271 nurses, and 506 African 

 assistants. Government medical expenditure was £252,573 and total 

 expenditure £3,456,704. The population was given as 57,080 EurO' 

 peans and 1,305,635 natives. 



Colonies, Protectorates, and Mandates 



Each of the British dependencies has its own Government Medical 

 Department, and the great advances which have been made 

 recently in the control of disease bear witness to the far-sightedness 

 and organizing capacity of the directors and other officers in 

 charge. 



For the East African group of dependencies, the Conference of 

 East African Governors has assisted greatly in maintaining touch 

 between workers, in medical as in other subjects. Conferences 

 on the co-ordination of general medical research were held at 

 Entebbe in November 1933 and at Nairobi in January 1936 (Con- 

 ference, East Africa, 1934a and 1936a), and two on tsetse ffies and 

 trypanosomiasis at Entebbe in 1933 and 1936 (Conference, East 

 Africa, 1934b and 1936b). In West Africa such colonial conferences 

 have not yet become a regular feature of medical activity. One 

 such conference, on yellow fever was held at Dakar in 1928 

 (Selwyn-Clarke 1929) and attended by representatives from both 

 French and British West African colonies. 



In addition to these governmental conferences, the part played 

 by local branches of the British Medical Association, especially 

 in East Africa, is considerable. Conferences were held at Nairobi 

 in 1932, at Dar-es-Salaam in 1934, and at Kampala in 1936, and 

 addresses by prominent medical men are arranged frequently. 

 The Association has also inaugurated special research studies, 

 such as an investigation into ulcers in Tanganyika, carried out in 



1933- 

 Most territories have laboratories, each with a staff of patho- 



