Report of the Medical Officer of Health, Cairo City.

Egypt. Cairo City Health Inspectorate.

Date:: [1918]

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Credit: Report of the Medical Officer of Health, Cairo City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH, CAIRO CITY, FOR 1917 AND 1918. N I.—INTRODUCTION. The conditions which prevailed during 1915 and 1916 owing to the war, which caused an extra strain on the work of this Department and necessitated publishing the report for the two years together, continued during 1917 and 1918. During 1917 the position was somewhat ameliorated, and this was to a great extent due to the absence of any infectious disease in an epidemic form. In 1918, however, there was an extensive prevalence of typhus and relapsing fever which increased the work enormously. Although the military authorities had made arrangements to treat certain of their infectious diseases in their own hospitals, the Government Fever Hospital continued to accept cases of typhus and relapsing fever, the majority of which were from among the prisoners of war. Military cases of smallpox were also treated throughout the year. In consequence the resources of the Fever Hospital were strained to the full. A combined report for 1917 and 1918 is now issued.