Annual medical and sanitary report / Falkland Islands.

  • Falkland Islands. Senior Medical Officer's Office.
Date:
[1934]
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Credit: Annual medical and sanitary report / Falkland Islands. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    RETURN OF CASES REPORTED BY THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF THE WEST FALKLANDS. Disease. Number of cases. Deaths. Remarks. I. Infectious and Parasitic Diseases. 8. Scarlet Fever ... 3 — Hill Cove. 11. Influenza (Spread over — Brought from the W. Is.) Stanlev. II. Tumours. 54. Angeioma 1 — III. Rheumatism, Diseases of Nutrition AND OTHER GENERAL DISEASES. 56. Rheumatic Fever 2 1 10. Scurvy 2 — Children. IV. Diseases of the Blood. 71. Anaemia many cases. — Due to lack of VI. Diseases of the Nervous System. vegetables. 87b. Alcoholic Neuritis 1 — * Polyneuritis ... 2 — Sciatica 4 — VII. Diseases of Circulatory System. 100. Varicose Veins 1 — VIII. Diseases of Respiratory System. 107. BronchoPneumonia ... 1 — IX. Diseases of the Digestive System. One developed 115:3 Tonsillitis 4 — acute nephritis. 117. Gastric Ulcer ... 1 — 118. Gastritis many cases. — 119. Gastro-enterids do. — P robabl y water X. Non-Venereal Disease of borne. Genito Urinary System. 138. Paraphimosis ... 1 — XI. Diseases of Pregnancy, Childbirth. 150:3 Parturition 10 — XII. Diseases of the Skin and Cellular Tissue. 151. 13 O ll ••• ••• a a • a a a ••• 1 _ 152. Abscess 2 — 153. Ulcer ... 1 — Erythema Nodosum ... 1 — XVII. From Violence. 194:2 Fractures 8 N,B. This return includes cases seen since September, 1933.