Medical report / British Honduras.

  • British Honduras. Medical Department.
Date:
[1951]
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Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Credit: Medical report / British Honduras. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    MORBIDITY REPORT ON IN-PATIENTS IN ALL THE HOSPITALSOF THE COLONY FOR 1951 INFECTIOUS AND PARASITIC DISEASES. Disease Belize Stann Creek Cayo Corozal Orange Walk Toledo TOTAL 1. Typhoid fever and Paratyphoid fevers. 31 1 16 4 2 10 64 2. Bacillary dysentery — — 1 — ____ _ 1 3. Amoebic dysentery including amoebiasis of any site .. 30 9 4 1 44 4. Dysentery unspecified .. — 21 2 5 1 4 33 5. Scarlet fever . — — — — _ 6. Whooping cough 2 1 — 2 2 7 7. Diphtheria . 1 — — — _ 1 8. Measles .. 4 9 — — .. 13 9. Influenza . 2 — 1 1 _ 4 10. Chickenpox 3 — — — - 3 11. Mumps .. 1 — — — 1 _ 2 12. Tuberculosis of the respiratory system 30 4 2 36 13. Other forms of tuberculosis 5 3 — 2 1 _ 11 14. Gonococcus infection of the fe¬ male genito-urinary system 1 2 4 7 15. Gonococcus of the male genito¬ urinary system .. 4 2 1 1 3 11 16. Gonococcus infection of the eye 1 — — — 1 2 17. Other forms of gonococcus infec¬ tion . 3 1 1 1 6 18. Malaria, unspecified 61 213 74 34 26 94 502 19. Malignant tertian malaria (P. falciparum) 21 2 2 25 20. Quartan malaria (P. malariae) — — — — _ . 21. Benign tertian malaria (P. vivax) 4 3 — - _ _ 7 22. Blackwater fever — 1 — _ _ 1 23. Early syphilis 21 — — _ ___ ___ 21 24. Cardiovascular syphilis 4 — — 1 _ _ 5 25. Syphilis of the nervous system.. 3 — 2 _ 1 6 26. Other forms of syphilis 39 3 1 _ _ _ 43 27. Congenital syphilis 6 — — — _ _____ 6 28. Undulant fever (brucellosis) .. — — — _ __ 29. Cerebrospinal (meningococcus) meningitis . 7 1 1 9 30. Erysipelas 2 ■— — — — -- 2 31. Tetanus. 2 2 — 2 - 6 32. Septicemia — — 1 — _ . _ 1 33. Gas bacillus infection .. 2 -- — — _ ___ 2 34. Rabies — -- -- _ _____ 35. Tularemia -- — — _ ___ 36. Smallpox including alastrim .. — — — — _ _ 37. Acute poliomyelitis but not se¬ quelae to the acute disease 38. Acute infectious encephalitis .. — — — — _ ___ 39. Typhus exanthematicus and other Rickettsiasis 40. Intestinal Worms other than Ankylostomiasis 15 32 1 1 2 51 41. Ankylostomiasis 3 — — — — ___ 3 42. Dermatophytosis and other forms of mycosis 1 1 2 43. Chancroid . 1 — — — — - 1 44. Lympho-granuloma inguinale .. 3 1 — 1 — 1 6 45. Other forms of venereal diseases — — — — — - 46. Leishmaniasis 5 — 3 — — - 8 47. Leprosy . — — — — — - 48. Plague . — — — — — - - 49. Yellow fever — — — — _ - 50. Cholera .. 1 — — _ _ _ 1 51. Relapsing fever .. — — — — _ __ 52. Dengue .. — — — — — _ _ 53. Other infectious or parasitic dis¬ eases . 2 6 2 10 54. Malignant neoplasm of the buccal cavity and pharynx II. NEOPLASMS 1 1 55. Malignan neoplasm of stomach .. 1 — — 1 — 1 3