Report of the Medical Officer of Health / Municipality of Colombo.

  • Colombo (Sri Lanka). Public Health Department.
Date:
[1910]
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Credit: Report of the Medical Officer of Health / Municipality of Colombo. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Table LXIV.—Causes of Deaths which occurred in the Colombo Municipality during the Year 1910. Ward. Nationality. 1 Causes of Deaths. Colombo Town. j Fort and Galle Face. Pettah. j San Sebastian. St. Paul’s. Kotahena. New Bazaar. Maradana Hospitals. Maradana,, exclusive of Hospitals. Slave Island. Kollupitiya. Europeans. Burghers. Sinhalese. Tamils. Moors. Malays. Others. All Causes 5750 39; 94 252 558 870 505 1604 911 472 445 78 316 2738 1336 967 162 153 I. Specific, febrile, or zymotic! diseases .. 1 933 4 19 43 110 154 69 317 120 74 83 19 64 477 230 139 33 31 II. Parasitic diseases .. | 213j — — 6 14! 49 15 61 34 13 21 — 3 131 47 23 5 4 III. Dietetic diseases .. I 63 1 — — — 28 -- 11 7 11 5 — 2 36 16 6 2 1 IV. Constitutional diseases .. ] 790 4 17 39 82 108 99 196 145 52 48 9 49 368 184 144 16 20 V. Developmental diseases 372 — — 16 25 83 32 77 59 42 38 2 16 19S 48 89 12 7 VI. Local diseases 2747 21 46 125 282 346 245 775 495 214 198 39 159 1236 691 476 74 72 VII. Violence 129| 8 6 1 5 7 1 74 9 6 12 6 1 74 25 9 3 11 VIII. Ill-defined and not specified diseases 443 1 . 6 22 40 95 44 93 42 60 40 3 22 218 95 81 17 7 I. Specific, febrile, or zymotic : 19 1. Miasmatic diseases 346 4 11 11 33 78 22 84 40 23 40 11 39 179 49 40 9 2. Diarrhceal diseases 486 _ 7 26 62 62 36 170 51 37 35 5 17 215 144 82 14 9 3. Malarial diseases 56 — — 1 1 5 5 17 12 11 4 2 — 27 13 4 9 1 4. Zoogenous diseases 3 — — — — — — 3 — — — — 1 1 — — 1 5. Venereal diseases 17 — — 1 2 2 1 8 3 — — 1 1 12 1 1 1 — 6. Septic diseases 85 - 1 4 12 7 5 35 14 3 4 — 7 43 22 12 — 1 II. Parasitic diseases 213 — 6 14 49 15 61 34 13 21 -. 3 131 47 23 5 4 III. Dietetic diseases 63 . 1 — _ 28 — 11 7 11 5 — 2 36 16 6 2 1 IV. Constitutional diseases 790 4 17 39 82 108 99 196 145 52 48 9 49 368 184 144 16 20 V. Developmental diseases 372 •- 16 25 83 32 77 59 42 38 2 16 198 48 89 12 7 VI. Local diseases :— 1. Diseases of nervous sys- tern.. 805 2 8 56 125 123 97 47 185 77 85 3 39 359 176 186 21 21 2. Diseases of organs of special sense 1 3. Diseases of circulatory system 200 3, 3 14 10 11 13 74 25 26 21 5 20 100 27 30 10 8 4. Diseases of respiratory system 898 5 26 40 109 164 94 182 137 86 55 11 52 375 260 152 26 22 5. Diseases of digestive ' system 579 9 7 8 11 24 15 347 117 18 23 14 33 271 174 57 15 15 6. Diseases of lymphatic system and ductless 1 1 glands 2 i 1 1 — — — 2 — — — — 7. Diseases of urinary system 127 2 1 5 15 10 17 54 15 2 6 3 7 55 31 27 1 3 8. Diseases of reproductive 1 system— . (a) Organs of generation 17 — — — — 1 - 13 2 2 1 1 13 1 1 — — (b) Parturition 79 _ — i 12 13 8 27 9 4 5 — 6 39 13 18 1 2 9. Diseases of organs of locomotion 2 _ _ _ ____ ■ 2 ___ _ _ _ 1 1 _ — — 10. Diseases of integu- ! mentary system 37 1 i — 1 1 27 4 1 1 1 1 21 8 5 — 1 VII. Violence :— 1 1. Accident or negligence. . 89 7 3 i 3 6 1 52 6 2 8 3 1 48 18 7 2 10 2. Homicide 17 — 1 — 1 _ _ 14 _ 1 _ 1 _ 12 3 1 — — 3. Suicide 22 1 2 — 1 1 _ 8 2 3 4 2 _ 13 4 1 1 1 4. Execution 1 — — — — — — 1 — — — — 1 — — — VIII. Ill-defined and not specified causes 443 1 6 22 40 95 44 93 42 60 40 3 22 218 95 81 17 hr 7 Miasmatic Diseases. Smallpox 20 — 2 1 1 6 1 3 1 3 2 — 1 11 2 _ 6 Chickenpox Measles 4 ,- _ 1 1 1 i 1 . . _ _ 2 1 ____ 1 — Whooping cough 3 — _ 1 1 1 , _ 2 1 _ _ _ — Mumps Diphtheria 4 2 1 l , _ 3 — _ 1 —— — Typhus Cerebro-spinal fever Simple and ill-defined fever 30 — — — _ 13 1 1 3 4 8 — 5 12 6 4 2 11 Enteric fever 238 2 8 10 31 26 19 75 26 14 27 11 25 118 32 34 6 2 Suspected enteric fever 37 — — — — 27 7 , 3 — 2 32 3 _ — — Influenza 5 _ _ - _ 4 _ - 1 ___ __ .. 1 3 1 - . _ . . . _ Other epidemic diseases 5 2 1 — — — 2 — — — 4 1 — — Diarrhceal Diseases. Cholera - Diarrhoea - 234 — 3 12 20 38 12 61 37 28 23 2 13 128 42 38 9 2 Dysentery 252 — 4 14 42 24 24 109 14 9 12 3 4 87 102 44 5 7 Malarial Diseases. Remittent fever .. 48 — —— 1 1 5 5 11 10 11 4 2 . - 24 10 3 8 1 Ague Malarial cachexia 8 5 2 — — — — 3 3 1 1 1 — [ 78 ]