Annual medical and sanitary report / Swaziland.

  • Swaziland. Medical Department.
Date:
[1949]
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Credit: Annual medical and sanitary report / Swaziland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    19/98 (page 9)
    9. % The number of cases of Venereal Diseases treated during 1949 exceeded that of 1948 by 21$. Figures relating to the increase and decrease in the incidence of these diseases at certain centres in the Territory are given below:- Syphilis Since 1946 (a)/ Since 1947 (b) Since 1948 Gonorrhoea Since 1946 (a)/ Since 1947 (b) Since 1948 Mbabane* + 41.0$ (a) + 28.8$ + 215.7$ (a) +34.4$ Mankaiana. +316.6$ (a) + 6.2 $ + 30.0$ (a) - 2.0$ Hlatikulu. - 20.2$ (a) -15.5$ + 13.9$ (a) -41.8$ Goedgegun, + 155.8$ (!) + 63.6$ -59.5$ (t) + 125.0$ Bremersdorp* - 0.6$ (a) -32.4$ + 177.5$ (a) + 12.1$ Stegi. + 255.2$ (a) + 160 ? O 9 • The foregoing figures suggest that while the spread of syphilis is being combatted at Bremersdorp and Hlatikulu, the disease is on the increase in other areas and particularly at Goedgegun and Mbabane. The incidence of Gonorrhoea is increasing at Bremersdorp and Mbabane, but is elsewhere declining. As a first step in an organised syphilis control effort the bloods of some 1,100 persons attending the Mbabane Hospital were taken at random for serological testing, with the following results:- 17.7$ Positive. 9.1$ Doubtful. 73.2$ Negative. As conditions, such as malaria, which are frequently responsible for biological false/positivo reactions were absent from the series oaamined, and no repeat cases were included, these figures are of some significance. (viii) LEPROSY, The staff of the Mbuluzi Leper Hospital which is under the management and control of the Nazarene Mission, consisted of a Medical Superintendent (non-resident), a Lay Super¬ intendent (resident), an European matron, a nurse, a chaplain, an Agricultural Demonstrator, and three labourers. The number of in-patients on the 31st December was 75> 36 adult males, 27 adult females, 5 male and 7 female children, as compared with 59 at the end of 1948. Health of patients: There has been a general improvement in the health of the patients during the year. Three deaths occurred amongst advanced Lepromatous cases, the causes of death being as follows:-