Annual report on the Medical Department / Sierra Leone.

  • Sierra Leone. Medical Department.
Date:
[1918]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Annual report on the Medical Department / Sierra Leone. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    EUROPEAN TROOPS (EX-TRANSPORT). Septicsemia ... ... ... ... ... ... 1 Small-pox ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 1 Influenza ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 44 NON-EUROPEAN TROOPS (GARRISON). Septicaemia ... ... ... ... ... ••• 1 Carcinoma of Liver... ... ... ... ... ••• I Abscess Appendix ... ... ... ... ... I Pneumonia ... ... ... ... ... ... • •• 2 Pyemia ... ... ... ... ... • • • • • • 1 Influenza ... ... ... ... ... ... ••• 22 NON-EUROPEAN TROOPS (EX-TRANSPORT). Tubercle of Lungs . . ... ... 16 Valve Disease of Heart ... ... ... ... ... 4 Dysentery ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 4 Bronchitis, acute ... ... ... ... ... ••• 2 Phthisis ... ... ... ... ... ••• • • • 1 Pneumonia ... ... ... ... ... ... 6 Pleurisy ... ... ... ... ... ... • • • 3 Embolism from ITaematoma of Leg ... ... ... 1 Guinea Worm Foot ... ... ... ... ... 1 Emp}^aema ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 1 Nephritis ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 2 Mitral Stenosis ... ... ... ... ... ... 1 Influenza ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 13 Hemiplegia ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 1 EUROPEAN OFFICIALS—1918. Table Showing the Sick, Invaliding and Death-Rates of European Officials. 1917. 1918. Total number of Officials resident 210 227 Average number resident ... 110 97 Total number on sick list... 197 158 Total number of days on sick list... 1,673 1,528 Average daily number on sick list 4-58 4-18 Percentage of sick to average number resident ... 4-16 4-30 Average number of days on sick list to each patient ... 8-49 9-67 Average sick time to each resident 15-20 16-79 Total number invalided ... 9 11 Percentage of invalidings to total residents 4-28 4-84 Percentage of invalidings to average number resident ... 8-18 11-34 Total deaths 2 6 Percentage of deaths to total residents ... 0-95 2-64 Percentage of deaths to average number resident 1*81 6-18 During the Influenza period scarcely any Officer was placed on the Sick List.