Annual medical and health report / Nigeria.

  • Nigeria. Medical Department.
Date:
[1953]
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Credit: Annual medical and health report / Nigeria. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The Northern Region with half of all cases and almost two-thirds of all deaths, has a high death rate, and a higher proportion of patients recorded as having dysentery. 65. Malaria Inpatients Northern Region Eastern Region Western Region T otal {a) Diagnoses 6,062 3,455 3,241 12,758 (b) Deaths 130 91 126 347 (c) Case Mortality % 2.1 2.6 3.9 2.7 Outpatients Diagnoses 41,901 46,304 56,740 144,945 In the West the diagnosis of malaria is made more frequently among outpatients than in the other Regions, but less frequently among inpatients. The inpatients’ mortality rate was much higher in the Western Region than elsewhere. It might be concluded that it pays to admit earlier into hospital as inpatients a higher pro¬ portion of those who are seriously ill with malaria. Although hospital returns cannot reflect the great amount of ill health caused by malaria, it is noteworthy that this disease was recorded in 9 per cent of all inpatient diagnoses, in almost 11 per cent of all outpatient diagnoses, and in 5.6 per cent of all inpatient deaths. 66. Syphilis Northern Eastern Western Inpatients Region Region Region Total (a) Diagnoses .. 5,940 124 199 6,263 (i) expressed as a percen¬ tage of all inpatient diagnoses 8.7 0.3 0.4 4.0 (ii) expressed as a percen¬ tage of all inpatients.. 11.0 0.3 0.5 4.6 Outpatients Diagnoses .. 19,075 765 671 20,511 This is obviously a disease of the Northern Region which returned 95 per cent of all inpatient records and 93 per cent of all outpatient records of the disease, and where it was diagnosed in eleven per cent of inpatients. Gonorrhoea and yaws, which are known to be very common in the Eastern and Western Regions, are not returned specifically. It would be of interest to have these diseases and syphilis compared, both as between Regions, and as between the different zones of the Northern Region. 67. Smallpox Inpatients Northern Eastern Western Region Region Region Total (a) Diagnoses ... 546 248 9 803 ib) Deaths 78 11 — 89 (c) Case Mortality % 14.3 4.3 — 11.1