Report of the Ministry of Health / [Ghana Government].

  • Ghana. Ministry of Health.
Date:
[1954]
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Credit: Report of the Ministry of Health / [Ghana Government]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TABLE XXIX CAUSES OF DEATH OF NON-OFFICIAL EUROPEANS, 1954 Serial Diagnosis Number of Cases 1 Second degree burns, acute toxaemia. 1 2 Diagnosis unknown (coroner cases) 3 3 Cerebral malaria . . 3 4 Asphyxia pallida 1 5 Acute pneumonia, with cardiac failure 1 6 Haematemesis 1 7 Prematurity 2 8 Malignant tertian malaria: cardiac failure 1 9 Acute anterior poliomyelitis 1 10 Laryngo-tracheal diphtheria 1 11 ! Coronary thrombosis Heart failure 2 12 Congestive heart failure 1 13 Acute right sided dilatation of heart 1 14 Gastro-enteritis .. 1 15 Shock, and burns 1 TABLE XXX DEATHS OF OTHER EXPATRIATES, 1954 Occupation Levantine Asiatic American Oti IERS Lebanese Syrian Indian/ Pakis¬ tani Others United States Others West Indian Total Merchant Community . . — — . 1 — 1 2 Professional Community — — — — — — — — Women . . 1 — 1 ~ — — 1 Children .. 3 1 1 — — 1 6 Total 4 1 2 — — 2 9 14A