Annual medical and sanitary report / Swaziland.

  • Swaziland. Medical Department.
Date:
[1960]
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Credit: Annual medical and sanitary report / Swaziland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    - 9 - even if with some loss of momentum, and an attempt is made to treat all cases found at hospitals or clinics - and all cases encountered by the Malaria Control Unit field-staff. The treatment used is a single dose of dichlorophen. The number of cases treated in I960 was as followss- By Malaria Assistants and Health Office staff 5,181 At Government Hospitals and Clinics 1,846 7,027 The total number of cases treated since the campaign started in 1957 is as follows:- 1957 9,434 1958 6,951 1959 7,674 I960 7,027 31,086 The percentage of beef carcases found to be affected with ^measles at the Bremersdorp Abattoir over the past 8 years is - 1953 18# 1954 10# 1955 10# 1956 12# 1957 8# 1958 7# 1959 5# I960 4# Similar figures, in respect of Swaziland carcases, obtained from the Livestock and Meat Industries Control Board in Durban are as follows?- 1956 9.7# 1957 Figure not available 1958 6.89# 1959 6.28# I960 6.94# (ii) NUTRITIONAL AND DEFICIENCY DISEASES. The number of cases of nutritional disease recorded in I960 was much the same as in the previous year - although the number of deaths reported rose from 37 to 66. The cases dealt with in I960 were as followss- Malnutrition, unqualified, 1,040 cases with 30 deaths Pellaga 693 i? ti 5 ti Kwashiorkor 423 it ■ it 30 ii Scurvy 40 n ii 1 ii while the total number of cases of nutritional disease recorded annually since 1952 is - /1952 .