Report of the Principal Civil Medical Officer and Inspector-General of Hospitals / [Ceylon].

  • Ceylon. Civil Medical Department.
Date:
[1906]
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Credit: Report of the Principal Civil Medical Officer and Inspector-General of Hospitals / [Ceylon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Hypersemia of iris .. 5 Nyetalopia 7 Hypermetropia 123 Occlusio pupillse -. . 5 Hysterical amblyopia 1 Obscuratio vitrei.. 15 Hyperplasia of gland, tissue 1 (Edema of lids 5 Hypermetropia and presbyopia • • 12 Ophthalmia catarrh., acute 240 Injury to lid 1 Do. catarrh., chrome 48 Do. cornea 2 Do. gonorrhoeal 9 Do. eye 1 Do. granular 1 Iris bombe 3 Do. neonatorum 19 Irido cyclitis f 2 Do. sub-acute 2 Iridis prolapsus 1 Do. sympathetic 4 Irritation, sympathetic 1 Do. jegurity 2 Iritis 92 Optic neuritis 5 Do. gonorrhoea.. . • 2 Pannus 8 Do. post synechia 5 Panophthalmitis 31 Do. rheumatic .. 12 Paralysis, facial .. 4 Do. rheumatic, chronic 1 Periostitis orbital 3 Do traumatic .. 2 Phthisis bulbi 52 Ischaemia retained .. 11 Pinguecula 9 Keratitis 25 Polypoid growth . . 2 Keratitis diffusa 3 Presbyopia -V • • 184 Do. discreta 1 Pterygium 49 Do. degeneration 1 Ptosis -s§ .. 1 Do. centralis 1 Scald of Ud¥yj|^ 3 Do. lamellar 1 Do. of conjunct. 5 Do. leprotic 1 Scleritis 4 Do. interstitial .. 28 Staphyloma 11 Do. marginalis . . 4 Do. anterior 54 Do. phlyctenular 64 Do. ciliary 2 Do. striata 1 Strabismus 2 Do. superficial .. 61 Do. divergent 1 Do. punctata . . 1 Subluxatio lentis. . 4 Do. traumatic . . 16 Symblepharon 1 Do. ulcerosa 326 Synechia, anterior 18 Keratoconus 1 Do. annular 1 Keratomalasia 8 Do. posterior 3 Lachrymal obstruction 51 Tinea tarsi 1 Leucoma 85 Trauma septic of eyeball 3 Do. adherent . . 3 Trachoma 37 Lithiasis of conj. 1 Wound of cornea 36 Lupus erythematosus 2 Do. cornea septic 1 Macula cornea 15 Do. conj. .. 14 Mycotic disease of cornea 2 Do. lid 4 Muscse volitaus 5 Do. sclerotic 2 Myopia 36 Xerosis of conj. .. 22 Nebula cornea 5 Ear cases 252 Neoplasm of conjunctiva (non- malignant) 8 Throat cases 115 Neuralgia of eye Do. supra-orbital 1 2 Total .. 4,866 Report of J. B. Spence, M.B., Medical Superintendent, Lunatic Asylum, Colombo. For statistical purposes it is convenient to separate the Asylum from the House of Observation and I shall take the former first. A. Asylum.—At the beginning of the year 571 patients (357 males and 214 females) remained under treatment. 160 patients (106 males and 54 females) were admitted during the year. The total number under treatment in 1906 was therefore 731 (463 males, 268 females). 127 patients (81 males, 46 females) were discharged, and 92 (62 males, 30 females) died. The number remaining at the end of the year was therefore 512 (320 males, 192 females), a decrease of 59 (37 males, 22 females) during its course. The average daily number resident was 553 45 (males 345 53, females 207'91), a decrease of 6'94 as compared with the figure for 1905. In the case of males the decrease in the daily average was 7’02, in that of females there was an increase of '08. The largest total number resident on any one day was 580 (an increase of three over the maximum of 1905), while the largest number of males was 368 (an increase of 7) and of females 215 (a decrease of 1). The smallest total number of patients simulta¬ neously resident was 513 (320 in the case of males, 191 in that of females). The minimum numbers occurred near the end of the year, and not at the beginning as was the case in 1905. B. House, of Observation.—Nine patients (6 men and 3 women, remained under treatment at the beginning of the year. 135 males and 37 females, in all 172, were admitted during 1906. The total number treated was thus 181 (141 males, 40 females). Of these, 48 males and 29 females, total 77, were transferred to the Asylum, and 85 males and 9 females, total 94, were discharged without passing into the Asylum. The male patient died. The number remaining at the end of the year was therefore 9 (7 males, 2 females). The average daily number resident was 10 • 14 (males 7 • 06, females 3 • 08). These numbers approxi¬ mate very closely to those of 1905. The maximum number of males resident at one time was 19 (an increase of 6 over the corresponding number for 1905), of females 6 (a decrease of 2), and of both together 20 (a decrease of 1). The minimum numbers were 1 male, 1 female, both together 3.