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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    Table XLL—Distribution of Uncertified Deaths and Death Inquiries in the Various Districts in 1917. Uncertified Deaths. M2 cd M2 & District. All Deaths. -tH <D -40 -5 -c e be O 02 4-9 cS be .g L* S3 4-9 5; ^3 <o <r> <D & -4-9 bD f-t a ci c3 fq H3 <D 4-9 be CD be . p *3 * o H *4-4 tp ° y <r> be £ . . Ini a) o S h-1 ^ CD 4-9 M2 <D > G ' h—1 .2 t:<s> Q ^ £ 1 ^ fc* % ££ M p 4-9 M2 CD > G p- 4-9 #o 4-< M2 c3 g 4-9 G G p CD ^ © s- £ c3 R Ph Per Cent. Mil sky . . ••• 650 235 59 — — 294 45*2 Bab el Sh aeriya . 2,340 1,222 279 — 1,501 64*1 Ezbeldya ••• ••• ••• ••• 1,246 189 207 — — 396 31*8 Abdin . .. • • • 1,780 922 207 — — 1,129 63*4 Saiyeda Zeinab . 2,610 1,218 606 — — 1,824 69*9 Helwan . . 266 159 24 — -— 183 68*8 Khalifa .. . 2,245 1,615 350 — — 1,975 88*0 Darb el Ahmar . 2,269 1,411 334 — — 1,745 76*9 Gamaliya ) 2,246 1,441 293 — — 1,734 77*2' Shubra . .. ••• 2,921 923 261 947 66 • 2,207 75*5 Bdlaq ■ Bulaq I . | 4,072 < 1,820 430 — — 2,250 | 87*4 Bulaq IT . 648 663 — — 1,361 Old Cairo ••• ••• ••• ••• 1,559 893 176 284 43 1,396 89*5 Zeitun . } \ 246 52 443 41 782 j 67*0 Wayli 2,600 - 962 cAbbasiya. 786 176 ) Totals for Cairo ... M ( 26,804 / 13,738 4,127 1,674 150 19,689 73*4 Of the 27,211 inquests held, the investigation was made in 19,437, or 51-7 per cent of the cases, by the District Medical Officers ; 7,649, or 20-4 per cent of the cases, by the District day as ; whilst in the outside villages attached to the city, 108 investigations, or 0-3 per cent of the cases, and 17, or 0-04 per cent of the eases, were made by the village sanitary barbers and dayas respectively. The daily average of death inquiries held in 1918 was 74-5, as compared with 53-9 in 1917 and 58T in 1916. The daily average of examinations carried out by the District Medical Officers in 1918 was 53-3, as against 37-6 in 1917 and 40-3 in 1916. The daily average held by the hakimas was 20-9 in 1918, as against 11-2 in 1917 and 12-8 in 1916. The daily average in 1918 of inquiries held by the sanitary barbers was 0-3, as against 4-6 in 1917 and 4-2 in 1916 ; whilst the daily average held by the dayas was 0-04, as against 0-4 in 1917 and 0-76 in 1916. The reason of the small number of investigations held this year by the village barbers and dayas is that owing to the possible chance of cholera coming to Egypt all investigations in the outlying villages were made by the District Medical Officer and hakimas from the month of February. The largest number of inquiries by a Medical Officer during 1918 was 2,479 by the Health Officer of Shubra,-who dealt with an average of 6-8 cases per day, as compared with 4-9 in 1917 and 6-08 in 1916 cases per day in Bulaq. The smallest number of inquiries in 1918 was, as in the previous years, held by the Medical Officer of Helwan, who investigated 218 cases, a daily average of 0-6 cases, as compared with 0-43 in 1917 and 0-41 cases in 1916. The highest number of inquiries held, this year, by hakimas, was in Bulaq I witk 1,438, or an average of 3-9 per day, as against 1-8 in 1917 and 2-35 in 1916.