Report of the Director of Medical Services / British Guiana.

  • British Guiana. Medical Department
Date:
[1944]
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Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Credit: Report of the Director of Medical Services / British Guiana. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    No. Corresponding number in International Lists. Disease. IN-PATIENT. Total Total Cases. Deaths. OUT- PATIENTS. T otal Cases. 35 (b) Gonorrhoea .. 429 1 1,395 36 (c) Other V.D. 197 8 1,461 23 37 Yellow Fever — — — 24 38 Malaria (a) Benign Tertian 819 18 706 (b) Subtertian .... 842 32 151 (c) Quartan 9 — 103 (d) Unclassified .. 1,983 118 6,466 25 44-46 Blackwater Fever .... 5 3 — 26 39 Kala-azar .... — — — 27 39 T rypanosomiasis — — — 28 39 Yaws 14 — 110 29 39 Other protozoal diseases 193 — — 30 40 Ankylostomiasis 264 2 210 31 42 Schistosomiasis — -—• •— 32 41, 42 Other helminthic diseases .... 98 — 708 33 15, 19, 20 | 36, 43, 44 J Other infectious and/or Parasitic diseases 39 8 453 34 44-53 Cancer and other tumours 45-53 (a) Malignant .... .... ' .... 81 1 — 54 (b) Non-malignant 162 22 — 55 (c) Undetermined .... .... 18 1 39 35 36-57 Rheumatic conditions 92 — 639 36 59 Diabetes .... .... _ _ 91 11 67 37 60 Scurvy — — — 38 61 Beriberi 3 — — 39 62 Pellagra l 1 — 40 58, 63, 64 Other diseases— (a) Nutritional .. 342 45 2,288 (b) Endocrine glands and general 43 — 266 41 70-74 Diseases of the blood and blood-forming organs .. 599 89 162 42 75-77 Acute and Chronic Poisoning 55 — — 43 82 Cerebral Haemorrhage 127 39 2 44 78 81, 83 87 Other diseases of the nervous system.... 596 55 756 45 88 Trachoma .... 1 — 5 46 88 Other diseases of the eye and annexe .. 525 3 2,815 47 89 Disease of the ear and mastoid sinus.... 122 2 1,011 48 90-103 Diseases of the circulatory system— 90-95 (a) Heart Disease 595 155 539 96-103 (b) Other circulatory diseases .... 245 35 601 49 106 Bronchitis .... 481 25 2.889 50 107-109 Pneumonia— 107 (a) Broncho-Pneumonia 60 26 7 108 (t>) Lobar-Pneumonia .... 249 57 4 109 (c) Otherwise defined .... 68 14 58 5 1 104, 105, 'j 110-114 >. Other diseases of the respiratory system 611 35 1,958 52 119-120 Diarrhoea and enteritis-— (a) Under 2 years of age 21 10 127 (b) Over 2 years of age 296 22 661 53 121 Appendicitis 112 1 4 54 122 Hernia, Intestinal obstruction 465 18 124
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