Annual medical and sanitary report / Uganda Protectorate.

  • Uganda Protectorate. Medical Department.
Date:
[1912]
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Credit: Annual medical and sanitary report / Uganda Protectorate. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    18/82 (page 16)
    (r) NATIVE OFFICIALS, INCLUDING- ASIATICS. There were 7*23 eases treated, with 2 deaths, as compared with 748 admissions and 5 deaths in the preceding year. Of these 622 were placed off duty and 101 continued to do duty while under treatment. The principal causes of admission to the sick list were:—Malaria, 231 cases: fever of uncertain origin, 136 cases; diseases of the digestive system, 116 cases : and diseases of the respiratory system, 51 cases. Blackwater fever contributed 3 cases, of which 2 proved fatal. One Goanese clerk, 1 Indian carpenter and 2 Sepoys were invalided during the year, the first named for general debility, the second for debility following Malaria, and the two Sepoys for paralysis and delusional insanity respectively. TABLE SHOWING THE SICK. INVALIDING AND DEATH BATES OF ASIATIC AND NATIVE OFFICIALS DURING 1912. Stations. 1 | g _§ r -2 x £ Sc C3 © > x i * X Ai >* *5 w - c O x *4 O i j 5 A © £4 C -A x a * A > Sc > , II © X u 5: 5 -A H c «- c r-4 x £ JN 3 ~ — bC^ §M 3 o > ’J 3 o if .*1 .a -s x © Sc - © > -3 © > f-t A< X b£ .£ .P * > J3 *-* x © O e4 O ^2 ^A rf *** o c X -4 A o X m X «:3 O X O (4 be -pS a _ © S O x X =* © © f-f o S be £ -A ** C o © ^ > >> -3 £ O 55 m ^ ^ A C— ~ «r4 q -es X 3 *4 ill — c A: .2 *x Bombo . 24 14 21 260 •71 5-07 12-37 18-57 _ Entebbe . | 5S 58 144 417 1-14 224 2-80 7-10 1 2-08 — — — o O Kakindn . . 13 8 30 61 •17 2*12 203 7-62 — — — — — 5 Fort Portal. . S 5 8 105 •28 5-60 1312 21-00 — — _ — — 1 Gondokoro. * 1 o O o Gain 5 Q MM 19 72 •19 9-50 3-78 36-00 — — — — — 2 Hoima . 11 3 14 107 •29 9‘66 7-64 35-66 — — — — — i Jinia . 41 30 115 697 1-91 6-36 6-06 23-23 4*S7 — — — 7 Kampala . . 65 31 231 316 •86 2-77 1-36 10-19 — — i 1-53 3-22 — Kieezi . 1 1 Nabieso Masaka . 6 4 5 1 •002 •05 •20 -25 — — — — — — Masindi . 10 6 23 83 *22 3-66 3-60 13-S3 1 10-00 — — — — Mbale . S 3 7 1 •002 •06 •14 • 3 3 — — i 12-5 — — Mbarara . i 4 3 68 •18 4-5 22-66 17-00 — — — — — — Nimnli 4 3 2 6 •01 •33 3-00 2-00 — — — — — — Kami Uganda ^ Protectorate J ~ 175 622 2,194 5-96 3-40 3-52 12-53 4 1-50 9 •75 1-14 19 (rf) GENERAL EUROPEAN POPULATION. The health of Europeans generally continues to be good. The cases treated numbered 733 with 7 deaths, as compared with 662 cases and 7 deaths in 1911, 6S0 cases with 5 deaths in 1910 and 475 cases with 8 deaths in 1909. Malaria, as usual, was responsible for a large number of admissions amongst this class, viz.:—235. or 31*8 per cent, of the total, as compared with 306 per cent, last year. Blackwater fever contributed 9 cases with 3 deaths, diseases of the digestive system 128 cases with one death, and Injuries 53 cises.