Annual report on the medical services / Sierra Leone.

  • Sierra Leone. Medical Department.
Date:
[1944]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Annual report on the medical services / Sierra Leone. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    AFRICANS No. Diseases. In-Patients. Deaths. Out-Patients \ M. F. M. F. M. F. 1. (a) Typhoid fever 44 16 16 3 1 —■ (b) Paratyphoid fever 4 — . — — — — 9 Typhus 38 4 — — 4 4 3. Relapsing fever ... — — — -— — -— 4. Undulant fever ... —— — — — — — 5. Smallpox 12 15 — — 9 1 6. Measles 2 1 — — 30 30 7. Scarlet fever — — — — — — 8. Whooping cough ... 5 6 2 1 71 91 9. Diphtheria — 3 — — — 2 10. Influenza :— (a) With respiratory complications \_ o — — 4 1 (b) Without respiratory complications 8 4 — — 13 6 11. Cholera — — — — — — 12. Dysentery :— (a) Amoebic 53 21 10 3 74 52 (b) Bacillary 31 9 5 — 12 1 (c) Unclassified 43 99 JmJ 4 3 279 216 13. Plague :— (a) Bubonic (b) Pneumonic — -- — — • — -—• (c) Septicaemic ... — — — — — —- 14. Acute poliomyelitis — — — — — — IS. Encephalitis lethargica 1 -- — — 1 —• 16. Cerebro-spinal fever 30 6 11 2 1 — 17. Rabies — — — — - — — 18. Tetanus 27 12 12 9 6 4 19. Tuberculosis of the Respiratory system 139 76 44 21 106 58 JO. Other Tuberculous diseases 13 4 2 — 28 15 21. Leprosy 9 — — — 119 71 12. Venereal diseases :— (a) Syphilis 42 9 1 218 159 (b) Gonorrhoea ... 99 34 2 — 2,151 549 (c) Other Venereal diseases 152 38 6 — 638 207 23. Yellow fever — — — — — — >4. Malaria :— (a) Benign 144 . ______ 1 (b) Subtertian 39 18 6 2 1,034 419 (c) Quartan 8 8 — — 432 194 (d) Unclassified ... 240 106 — 3 4,520 3,105 55. Blackwater fever — — — — — — 56. Kala-azar — — — — — — 57. T rypanosomiasis 9 4 9 2 55 35 58. Yaws 47 20 1 — 8,556 6,668 >9. Other Protozoal diseases ... — — — —- — — K). Ankylostomiasis ... 21 9 2 — 153 1 16 n. Schistosomiasis 12 9 — — 63 27 12. Other Helminthic diseases 30 29 — 1 2,148 2,370 13. Other infectious or parasitic diseases 11 6 1 — 226 183 14. Cancer and other Tumours :— (a) Malignant 15 10 9 ZJ 2 1 3 (b) Non-malignant 11 49 — — 19 30 (c) Undetermined 21 9 — — 46 30 15. Rheumatic conditions 67 37 — 1 4,294 2,566 >6. Diabetes 4 1 U — 1 — ■7. Scurvy ... — 1 — 1 — —