Annual medical and sanitary report / Uganda Protectorate.

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

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    The principal causes of sickness were :— Malaria... Blackwater Digestive ... 203 5 (1 death) ... 93 Respiratory Influenza 24 28 (1 death) 12 European Officials were invalided :— (a) As being unfit for further service in Uganda:— Anaemia and Chronic Bronchitis ... 1 Cardiac Debility ... ... 1 Debility after Cerebral Malaria ... 1 ‘Attempted suicide ... ... 1 (6) Recommended leave to England :— Debility Debility after Influenza Blackwater Fever Malaria Amoebic Dysentry ... ... 1 General Debility Cerebral Malaria ... ... 1 Eczema 1 1 1 1 1 L Table shewing the cause of Invaliding amongst European Officials DURING THE PAST SIX YEARS. DISEASES. 1919 1918 1917 1916 1915 1914 Totals. Blackwater Fever 1 l 1 1 _ 1 5 Circulatory Affections — 1 — 1 1 — 3 General Debility 4 1 1 1 — — 7 Nervous and Mental Diseases 1 1 1 — — — 3 Neurasthenia ... — 2 1 1 — 1 5 Tuberculosis ... — 1 1 — — 1 3 Leukaemia — — — — — 1 1 Digestive Disorders . — 1 — — 2 -— 3 Carcinoma — 2 1 — — . — 3 Alcoholic Neuritis — — 1 — — — 1 Neuritis — — 1 — — — 1 Amoebic Dysentery 1 2 — — — — 3 Adenitis 1 — — — — 1 Anaemia and Chronic Bronchitis I — — — — — 1 Cardiac Debility i 1 — — - — — — 1 Eczema 1 — — — — — 1 Malaria 2 ' : — 2 12 13 8 4 3 4 44 (D) Native Officials, including Asiatics. Table Showing the Sick, Invaliding and Death Rates of Asiatic and Native Officials during 1919. Stations. Total number of Officials resident Average number resident. j Total number on sick list. Total number of days on sick list. Average daily number on sick list. % of sick to average number resident. Average number of days on sick list for each patient. Average sick time to each resident. Total number invalided. % of Invalidings to total residents. Total Deaths. % of Deaths to total residents. % of Deaths to average number resident. Number of cases of sickness contracted away from station. Arua 3 1-90 1 8 •02 1-05 8-00 4-21 Bombo • • • . . . ... ... ... ... .. ... . . . ... Butiaba 8 7B0 67 246 •67 9-57 3-67 35-14 . . . . . Entebbe 95 72'GO 237 1,040 2-84 3-94 4-38 14-44 2 2-10 Gulu 11 2-86 (5 97 •26 9‘09 16-16 331)1 . . . • . . ... Hoima ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Jinja 102 45-00 95 459 1-25 2-77 4-83 10-20 1 •98 i •98 2-22 10 Kampala 110 55-20 265 1,089 2-90 5-25 4-11 19-8 2 ... 3 2'7 5-62 16 Kitgum • . . ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Lira 6 2-39 32 35 09 3-76 1-09 14-64 . . . Masaka 48 5-30 34 11 •03 *56 •32 207 1 2-29 ... Masindi 115 6-50 43 189 •51 7-84 4'39 2907 Mbale 16 7V8 33 111 •30 4-23 3'36 15-67 . . . ... Mbarara 10 457 12 75 •20 4-37 6-25 16-41 1 10-00 ... ... ... 2 Namasagali 45 45-00 170 658 1-80 400 3-87 14-62 ... 1 2-22 222 Soroti 9 8-54 11 55 •15 4-23 5*00 15-53 ... 1 11-11 28*24 2 Totals 578 258-34 1006 4.073 11-02 4-27 4'05 15-77 7 1-21 6 1-04 2'32 30