Annual medical and sanitary report / Uganda Protectorate.

  • Uganda Protectorate. Medical Department.
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[1918]
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Credit: Annual medical and sanitary report / Uganda Protectorate. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Plague.—Two cases with two deaths are reported in the Hospitals. In the native returns the Medical Sanitary Officer drawTs attention to the fact that Oerebro- Spinal Meningitis and Plague are constantly confused by natives. Table C—Showing the number of Heaths from Plague according to native returns . INCLUDING RETURNS BY NATIVE INSPECTORS FOR THE LAST SIX YEARS. DISTRICT 1918 1917 1916 1915 1914 1913 Buganda 177 238 220 227 340 568 Busoga 485 518 462 273 88 468 Bukedi 1,052 1,661 2,562 1,912 1,963 1,671 Teso 698 594 458 615 651 261 Lango no returns 753 627 951 624 222 Bunyoro nil 18 17 4 4 40 Toro nil 48 4 2 21 • • . Ankole 81 201 34 44 34 62 Nile no returns Totals... 2,493 4,031 4,384 4,028 3,725 3,292 It is to be remembered that this return is based on native diagnosis and that only twTo cases of plague have been diagnosed by Medical Officers during the year. A native considers any case of severe sudden illness with no obvious symptoms as one of “ Kaumpuli ” (Plague). * Pneumonia.— Year Cases Deaths 1917 165 40 1918 139 27 Smallpox.—Admission to Government Isolation Hospitals. Year Cases Deaths 1916 104 25 1917 992 230 1918 1,374 392 Table D—Showing the number of Deaths from Smallpox according to native RETURNS INCLUDING RETURNS BY NATIVE INSPECTORS FOR THE PAST SIX YEARS. DISTRICT 1918 1917 1916 1915 1914 1913 Buganda 1,155 569 111 537 20 10 Busoga 1,598 1,199 334 210 870 317 Bukedi 1,483 1,527 1,537 815 353 Teso 1,688 674 54 370 142 Bunyoro 1,110 191 •.. 1 ... 7 Toro 266 2 5 4 4 Ankole 62 16 77 4 1 3 Lango 908 no returns Nile Districts no returns Totals ... 8,270 4,178 2,118 1,941 1,390 337 The increase in the number of deaths from smallpox is due to the continuance of an epidemic that broke out last year (see pages 11 and 24). Syphilis.—The admissions to Government Hospitals were :— Year Cases Deaths In 1917 4,383 16 In 1918 2,991 6 The special Anti-Venereal Campaign remained in abeyance all the year.