Annual medical and sanitary report / Uganda Protectorate.

  • Uganda Protectorate. Medical Department.
Date:
[1916]
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Credit: Annual medical and sanitary report / Uganda Protectorate. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Black water Fever.—The number of cases treated decreased from 65 with 18 deaths in 1915 to 46 with 10 deaths in 1916. The total death rate was 21-7 per cent as compared with 25’6 per cent in 1915. Of the above total 36 cases, with 10 deaths, are included in the returns from Government Hospitals and Dispensaries, and 10 cases, with no deaths, are returned from the Church Missionary Society’s Hospital, Namirembe. Two European Officials were treated at Government Hospitals for blackwater fever and of these one case was fatal. Two other cases, one fatal, occurred in European Officers on active service. Dengue Fever.—Two cases with no deaths were recorded in 1916, as compared with nil in 1915. Yellow Fever.—Is not known to occur. Elephantiasis.- -The number of cases and deaths is not known, as diseases of lymphatic system and connective tissue are not shown in detail in the returns for this year. Relapsing Fever.—148 cases with 1 death were returned as compared with 251 cases with 4 deaths in 1915. An increase occurred at Masaka to 106 cases from 59 cases in 1915. The number of cases treated at Kampala decreased from 85 with 3 deaths to 20 with 1 death. Trypanosomiasis.—The total admissions amounted to 17 with 10 deaths including one admission and 3 deaths at the Sleeping Sickness Camp. The following table shows the distribution of deaths attributed to sleeping sickness in combined native and official returns since 1905:— TABLE OF DEATHS FROM SLEEPING SICKNESS. Peovinces or Districts. Year. Buganda. Busoga. Bunyoro. Ankole. Toro. Nile Province. County Unknown. Totals. 1905 ... 8,003 No record _ 8,003 1906 ... 5,304 849 369 — — — — 6,522 1907 ... 3,407 593 170 — — 5 — 4,175 1908 ... 1,723 1,478 461 — — — — 3,662 1909 ... 925 603 254 — — — — 1,782 1910 ... 527 698 277 37 — 7 — 1,546 1911 ... 253 1,013 168 6 46 1 — 1,487 1912 ... 82 747 84 11 5 — 3 932 1913 ... 57 554 41 21 29 — 6 708 1911 ... 24 354 15 65 8 — — 466 1915 ... 3 244 11 88 4 2 — 352 1916 ... 2 155 7 37 8 — — 209 Totals 20,310 7,288 1,857 265 100 15 9 29,844 No deaths were attributed to sleeping sickness in the native returns for Buganda. (2) Infectious or Epidemic Diseases. Beri-Beri.—-Two cases with two deaths were reported among the prisoners at Kampala. These are the only cases that have as yet been recorded in Uganda. Both were prisoners from the Eastern Province. Cerehro-Spinal Fever.—The number of cases increased from 4 with 3 deaths in 1915 to 94 with 42 deaths in 1916. Bombo, Entebbe, Jinja, Kampala and Mbale account for nearly all the cases. The increase is due to war conditions. Dysentery.—The number of cases recorded shows an increase to 743 with 19 deaths from 500 with 18 deaths in 1915. The increase is general and is due to war conditions.