Medical and sanitary report / Government of the Gold Coast.

  • Gold Coast. Medical Department.
Date:
[1893]
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Credit: Medical and sanitary report / Government of the Gold Coast. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TABLE II. Table shewing mortality rate among the classes of European residents on the Gold Coast from 1891 to 1893. Class. Years. Remarks. 1891. 1892. 1893. Official ... Non-official 30-76 32-71 36-3 70-73 31 -25 pr. 1,000 64-93 „ TABLE III. Table shewing Invaliding rate among the classes of European residents on the Gold Coast from 1891 to 1893. Class. Years. Remarks. 1891. 1892. 1893. Official ••• • • • ••• Non Official 153-8 175-2 100-0 141-4 78-12 pr. 1,000 32-46 TABLE IV. Table shewing Invaliding rate among the Mining Population on the Gold Coast from 1891 to 1893. Year. Mortality. Invaliding. Remarks. 1891 27-2 324 pr. 1,000 1892 157-8 381 1893 121-21 242-42 „ TABLE Y. Comparative death-rate of various classes in 1893. Class. Mortality. Invalided. Total Government Officials 31-25 31-25 Europeans at Kwitta, including Govt. Officials ... 75-00 20-00 Basel Missionaries ... 76-92 12-82 Catholics ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• 115-38 115-38 „ Residents at Elmina and Cape Coast (including Govt. Officials and Catholics) 114-28 85-71 ,, Mining Districts 121-21 242-42 24. From the foregoing data, it will be seen that taking the classes of Europeans separately, the mortality and invaliding was, as heretofore, distinctly less among the officials than among the non-official residents. 25. Among the latter the highest rate of mortality and invaliding was as in the previous year, in the mining districts of Tarkwa and Axim, i.e., taking all the cases of deaths from diseases and accidents. 26. The Catholic Missionaries suffered heavily, both in the rate of mortality and in the frequency and severity of illness among them. 27. Kwitta maintained its old bad reputation, as well in the large rate of mortality, as in the prevalence of sickness. [163063] 3