Annual report of the Director, Medical & Health Department / Colony of Mauritius.

  • Mauritius. Medical and Health Department.
Date:
[1913]
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Credit: Annual report of the Director, Medical & Health Department / Colony of Mauritius. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sir Cerebro-Spinal meningitis :—Only one (fatal) case was admitted w which were fatal.; ■t f ' frll'! bit .-li i- Beri-Beri:—Five hospitals. All were cured. cases are reported as having been treated at the Nephritis 544 in |i 9M to 485 -There was a still farther fall in the number of cases, from ; 97 of them were fatal. 1 Syphilis: -—542 patients were treated at the hospitals with 11 deaths and 499 out-patients, making a total of 1,041 cases altogether; of these 4Lb ■Were treated for primary infection. Leprosy:—’On January 1st., 1913, there were 92 inmates at the St. Lazare j Asylum. During the year 26 men and 7 women were admitted, .•making a total of 125 treated there. 17 men and, 5 women were discharged tand T2 men and 3 women died. The number left on December 3lst. 1913 was men and 21 women, a total of 88, or 4 less than in the previous year. /' • >;i>Six cases of small-pox occurred amongst the patients and three of the -sufferers died ;f the disease was introduced by one of .the men who spent the dhy begging about the streets of Port Louis, only returning to the Asylum to •***t and sleep, oh 1' ■ Th.i • As long as the Asylum is where it is, near the town, and as long as there is no enclosing wall it will be impossible to confine the lepers properly. Steps v are being taken t»o reconstruct the old prison and reformatory buildings at .•.•Powder Mills, some seven miles away, for their reception. When the lepers 'are removed there, they will not be able to wander about as they do at present, *as the premises are surrounded by a high wall and there is only one gate. Erysipelas :—Thirty-five cases with five deaths were treated in the hospitals during 1913. .?:• ,v. two' * U Measles iem .sles Fifty-five patients suffering from this disease were treated : m died. Iri the whole Island there were 615 cases, of which 12 proved - > i'1'>!' j„; '(ji ) iif'i it f ' 11 ) »7 ' /fit) i«jVV : At , 'i, . ,i. y f -oer.fi; ;f T ‘ Scarlet fever None were reported. ■i begmUosTb mm i h r.tv: vi ■ Mental diseases :—The Superintendent of the Lunatic Asylum reports that-5.61 patients were treated in the Institution during the year, 467 .being inmates on December 31st. 19,13. There were also 70 male and 30 female imbeciles in the Branch ward at the Barkly Asylum. The daily average vyas : <455.74 in the Asylum and 99.86 in the Branch ward. Eleven criminal lunatics 'ia((9 males and 2 females) were sent in ; one of these died and another went out on special probation. The total number of criminal lunatics under treatment was 31 (25 males and ’6 females). 8 of these (7 men and 1 woman) were let out on special probation. The total number of patients admitted was 124, viz : 75 men and 49 women, a reduction of 7 on last year, whereas only 72 (46 males and 26 females) were discharged. The admissions may be divided as follows : 62 (41 males and 21 females) first admissions, 5 (3 males 2 females) second admissions, 2 (1 male and 1 female) third admissions, and 1 female for the fourth time. 42 (20 males and 22 females) re-admissions from probation, 7 (6 males and 1 female) werb admitted on interim order and found sane. One man died before he could be examined by the Commissioners, 3 (2 males and 1 female, were admitted from the Branch ward, and one man came back from Grand River Lazaret where he had been sent to be treated for small-pox. In sixty-seven case? the cause of the insanity was discovered. '■ Seventy-two patient's were discharged from the Asylum, 8 of them by order of the Magistrate as not insane, and two women were sent back to Seychelles. ‘ Fifty-two were discharged on probation and seven were transferred to the Barkly Asylum wards as imbeciles. Two women were sent to the dying-in ward , «4the yBarkly Asylum and were discharged on probation after having been . confined. There are in all confined in the Asylum and out on probation 668 lunatics