Annual medical report / Southern Nigeria.

  • Nigeria, Southern. Medical Department.
Date:
[1907]
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Credit: Annual medical report / Southern Nigeria. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I have already discussed this subject in this report. The total of deaths uf Natives from Malarial Fever was 518, as compared with 512 in 1906. 4. There were 2,486 Births and 2,230, Deaths in Lagos Town. The total death-rate was 38 4 per thousand and the birtli-rate 44*9 per thousand. The infant mortality, (from birth to 12 years of age), was 26'0 per thousand of total population; but the death-rate of infants in the first year of life was 35-2 per cent of those born. That is, nearly one-third of the infants born, died before the end of a year. 5. The reports show that outside Lagos Town, information as to native population,—Births, Deaths, and causes of Deaths,—useful for scientific purposes, is not at present easily obtainable. It will in future he so to a certaiu extent, in spite of the difficulties that present them¬ selves, as a scheme for the more scientific registration of Deaths is now, I understand, under consideration. The following give the Statistics obtained from the Central and Eastern Provinces:— Central Province. Native population estimated at—1.900,000. European population in 1907 was 301. Deaths, Native. Not given; but 110 occurred out of 14,664 cases treated. Deaths, European, registered,—10 1 Blackwater-Sapele 2 Blackwater-Warri 1 Blackwater-Benin-City 1 Blackwater-Oka <| 1 Blackwater-Idab 1 Blackwater-Onitsha 1 Malaria -Warri 1 Malaria -Sapele _ 1 Beri Beri -Sapele. Births registered. Not given. Eastern Province. Native population (not given in Dr. Gray’s report). European population in 1907 (not giveu in Dr. Gray’s report). Deaths. Native. Not given; but 228 occurred out of 18,526 cases treated. r 1 BJackwater -Calabar- Deaths, European. ! 1 Pyaemia -Calabar 1 1 Heart Failure-Calabar registered,—4 Births registered. O L_1 Septicaemia -Abakaliki. Not given. 6. usual: The chief Causes of Deaths among the Natives were. as Malaria: Bowel Diseases (chiefly Dysentery and Diarrhoea); and Pulmonary Diseases (chiefly Bronchitis and Pneumonia) so fatal among Natives in the rainy and cold seasons of the year.