Occupational carbamate pesticide intoxication in three farm workers: implications and significance for occupational health in Jamaica

The importance of occupational health practice principles in the delivery of health care to the working population is stressed by the authors' management of an incident of occupational pesticide poisoning. The clinical management of the patients involved, as well as the occupational and environmental health management of that incident, is discussed. An illustrative case report is used to describe an occurrence of carbofuran pesticide poisoning in three female farm workers in Jamaica. This report highlights the implications and significance of this incidence in terms of the sensitivity of the medical profession to similar occupational health problems (AU)

A study of the development of certain aspects of public health in the parish of Portland, Jamaica from January 1965 to December 1974

This study has shown that the Portland Health Department has made positive strides in the area of organisational structure and development. The public health inspectorate has increased from a cadre of 12 posts in 1965, to 18 in 1974. Fifteen of these posts were filled by trained men, while 3 were occupied by untrained men, soon to be replaced by trained personnel. The total number of persons employed to the Mosquito Control Division has increased from 8 in 1965 to 56 in 1974. There has also been an increase in the number of District midwives. A Family Planning Division as well as a Division of Nutrition have also been added to the department of health. Other areas related to the Department of Health were evaluated and recommendations made as to possible improvements (AU)