Annual medical and sanitary report / Uganda Protectorate.

  • Uganda Protectorate. Medical Department.
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[1919]
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Credit: Annual medical and sanitary report / Uganda Protectorate. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    18. Smallpox.—The severe and wide-spread epidemic of 1918, though dying down towards the close of that year, persisted for some months of 1919 in the Eastern Province, 1,840 deaths being returned by the Chiefs, of which 1,702 occurred in Busoga, Bukedi and Teso. The epidemic died a natural death. We had no satisfactory lymph to check it and now that our own lymph laboratory is supplying lymph (the first batch was issued early in October) it is hoped that Uganda will not again suffer from such a severe epidemic. Only 151 cases were treated at the Government Isolation Camps with 40 deaths, compared with 1,374 cases with 392 deaths in 1918. Smallpox.—Admissions to Government Isolation Hospitals. Year Gases Deaths 1916 104 25 1917 ■ • • 992 230 1918 • • • 1,374 392 1919 ... 151 40 Table D—Showing the number of Deaths from Smallpox according to Native Beturns including Returns by Native Inspectors for the past six years. DISTRICT. 1919 1918 1917 1916 1915 1914 1913 Bueanda ... 62 1,155 569 111 537 20 10 Busoga 232 1,598 1.199 334 210 870 317 Bukedi S85 1,483 1,527 1,537 815 353 — Teso 585 1,688 674 54 370 142 — Bunyoro ... 51 1,110 191 — 1 — 7 Toro 22 266 2 5 4 4 — Ankole 3 62 16 77 4 1 3 Lango — 908 no returns Nile Districts ■ • no returns Totals ... 1,840 8,270 4,178 2,118 1,941 1,390 337 19. Syphilis.—The figures both in the Hospitals and in the Native Returns shew a decrease. The Hospital Registers shew 2,497 cases with 8 deaths for 1919 compared with 2,991 do do 6 do do 1918 and 4,383 do do 16 do do 1917 Table E below shews the deaths in the five Kingdoms for the last seven years. This must not be taken as evidence that Syphilis is decreasing in the Protectorate, on the other hand, it is undoubtedly spreading rapidly in the Eastern Province. Arrangements are being made to re-open the special Venereal Diseases Treatment Rooms in 1920 and it is hoped that sufficient staff and funds will be granted to make the movement a success. Syphilis.—Admissions to Government Hospitals :— Year Cases Deaths 1917 4,383 16 19.18 2,991 6 1919 2,497 8 Table E—Showing the number of Deaths due to Syphilis according to Native Returns for the last seven years. DISTRICT. 1919 1918 1917 1916 1915 1914 1913 Buganda ... 786 766 760 603 413 427 561 Busoga 408 571 557 539 465 426 435 Bunyoro ... 40 119 84 148 230 595 591 Ankole 447 617 534 631 725 593 498 Toro ...' ... 133 182 151 128 135 161 202 Totals 1,814 2,255 2,086 . 2,049 1,968 2,202 2,287