Report of the Medical Officer of Health / Municipality of Colombo.

  • Colombo (Sri Lanka). Public Health Department.
Date:
[1940]
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Credit: Report of the Medical Officer of Health / Municipality of Colombo. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REPORT OF THE CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH FOR 1940. Statistical Summary, 1940. Mean temperature Mean humidity Rainfall Average rainfall for the previous 10 years ... Area within Municipal Council limits exclusive of lake Population at Census of 1931 Estimated mean population for 1940 Average density per acre ... Number of live births registered Birth-rate per 1,000 population Birth-rate corrected for non-residents Maternal mortality rate per 1,000 births Maternal mortality rate corrected for non-residents Number of infantile deaths Infant mortality rate per 1,000 births Infant mortality rate corrected for non-residents Percentage of infantile deaths to total mortality Number of stillbirths Stillbirth rate per 1,000 births, live and still Number of deaths Crude death-rate per 1,000 population Death-rate corrected for non-residents No. of deaths Death-rate per 1,000 population ... No. of deaths Death-rate per 1,000 population ... No. of deaths Death-rate per 1,000 population ... No. of deaths Death-rate per 1,000 population ... No. of deaths Death-rate per 1,000 population ... Pneumonia Phthisis Enteric Fever Diarrhoea and Enteritis... Dysentery 80*9°F. 82 per cent. 83*80 inches 101*3 inches 8,317 acres 284,155 327,402 39*4 14,635 44*7 28*6 14*7 121 2,083 142 144 24*6 716 46*7 8,457 25*8 16*6 802 2*4 667 2*0 267 0*8 744 2*3 136 0*4 Part I.—General Review. 1. Reference to the statistical summary given will show that the birth-rate corrected for non-residents was 28*6 for 1940 whereas for 1939 it was 27*1. The general death-rate (corrected) was 16*6, the lowest ever recorded, the previous year’s figure being 17*7. The infant mortality rate corrected for non-residents was 144 while in 1939 it was 159. This figure of 144 is the lowest on record whereas the next lowest was 155 in 1938. The health of the City during the year was very satisfactory. 2. Infectious Diseases. (a) Major Infectious Diseases.—No cases of Smallpox, Cholera, or Plague were reported during the year.