Annual report of the Medical Department / Uganda Protectorate.

  • Uganda Protectorate. Medical Department.
Date:
[1949]
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Credit: Annual report of the Medical Department / Uganda Protectorate. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Table 2 Infant and Maternal Mortality Rates—African Population Year Infant Mortality per 1000 live births Maternal Mortality per 1000 live and still births 1926-29 ... 253 ... 1930-34 ••• 191 13-5 1935-39 ... 152 10 • 6 1940-44 ... 126 7-1 1945 110 5'7 1946 120 6-o 1947 99 5'3 1948 95 ^ 4*7 1949 ** 7> not yet available For comparison, the infant mortality rate in England and Wales was 154 in 1900, 66 in 1931 and 34 in 1948. B. Europeans General 18. European patients at Government Hospitals during 1949 totalled 7,423, of whom 4,345 attended the European Hospital, Kampala. Table 3 European Patients Officials Non-Officials Year T ota! Males Females Males Females New cases 1948 1,529 862 1,060 1*380 4*831# 1949 2,510 n787 1*417 1,699 7*4i3 Hospital admissions 1948 308 296 352 365 1*312 1949 340 357 344 257 1,298 Deaths in hospital 1948 2 0 6 2 10 1949 3 1 9 4 17 Note.—* The returns for 1948 do not include injections, vaccinations, inoculations and minor dressings undertaken at the European Hospital, Kampala. 19. The deaths of thirty-eight Europeans were registered, of which nine were the result of accident. Only one death was recorded as due to malaria. Cancer and diseases of the arteries affecting the heart and the brain, which are among the commonest causes of death in Great Britain, are also prominent as causes of death among Europeans in Uganda. The contrast with the low incidence of death from these causes in Asians may be explained in part by the greater average age of the European population.