Annual report on the medical services / Sierra Leone.

  • Sierra Leone. Medical Department.
Date:
[1942]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Annual report on the medical services / Sierra Leone. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    EUROPEANS. AFRICANS. 1 n- Discases. Patients. Deaths. i\/f 17 Out- Patients. 1 n- Patieuts. Deaths. M 77 uui- Patients M. F. X • M. F. M. F* JL. 9 M. F. 41. Diseases of the blood and blood forming organs 8 — 8 3 60 15 4 366 382 42. Acute and chronic poi¬ soning _ _ — — 1 — 27 8 — — 6 2 43. Cerebral haemorrhage ... - - — — — — 4 2 2 — — 2 44. Other diseases of the nervous system 25 1 1 _ . 29 8 106 26 20 3 408 376 45. Trachoma — — — — 6 2 1 — — — 3 4 46. Other diseases of the eye and annexa _ 21 4 56 19 2 _ 1,292 414 47. Diseases of the ear and mastoid sinus 6 — 59 4 7 6 _ _._ 621 369 48. Diseases of the circula- latory system :— (a) Heart 6 — 1 2 1 88 33 22 8 248 176 (b) Other circulatory diseases 6 — 1 5 39 10 6 3 203 85 49. Bronchitis 8 — — — 25 2 113 44 4 3 5,693 2,825 50. Pneumonia :—- (a) Broncho-pneumonia 1 — __ _ 40 33 11 7 32 30 (b) Lobar pneumonia ... — — — — —• — 245 41 24 6 32 15 (c) Otherwise defined ... — — — — — — 69 22 8 2 66 25 51. Other diseases of the res¬ piratory system 8 — r . 36 10 34 6 4 _ 1,695 831 52. Diarrhoea and enteritis:— (a) Under two years of age _ _ _ _ 7 _ 8 7 T_ 2 207 158 (6) Over two years of age 6 1 — — 42 4 74 25 6 7 1,082 434 53. Appendicitis ... 12 — ■—- — 3 -—- 7 3 — 1 4 8 54. Hernia, intestinal obstruc¬ tion ... 1 — 1 436 25 24 2 1,167 168 55. Cirrhosis of the liver - - — — — —. 12 4 4 1 4 4 56. Other diseases of the liver and biliary passages 6 — 1 _ 1 __ 38 13 4 _ 124 30 57. Other diseases of the digestive system 38 2 78 13 105 44 9 3,935 2,646 58. Nephritis :— (a) Acute 7 — 3 1 4 1 26 14 (6) Chronic 2 — — — 2 2 20 6 6 2 40 33 59. Other non-venereal dis¬ eases of the genito-urinarv system 14 2 19 3 62 51 6 1 689 1,024 60. Diseases of pregnancy, childbirth and the puer¬ peral state :— (a) Abortion 45 132 (b) Ectopic gestation ... -— — — — — — — — — — — 1 (c) Toxaemias of preg¬ nancy 260 5 238 (d) Other conditions of the puerperal state 682 8 59 61. Diseases of the skin, cellular tissue, bones and organs of locomotion ... 95 — 86 13 712 246 17 9 10,864 4,324 62. Congenital malformation and diseases of early infancy :— {a) Congenital debility — — -L - - — 10 8 7 6 15 11 ^ •, (b) Premature birth ^ (c) Injury at birth — — *- - - — 12 15 6 7 96 130 — — - - - — 3 3 3 3 1 -- 63. Senility 64. External causes — — - - - — 19 8 3 — 91 80 (a) Suicide {&) Other forms of — — - - - — 1 — — — — — violence 12 — — 15 — 481 88 34 8 5,786 943 65. Ill-defined causes 25 7 — — 11 8 127 27 11 3 317 207 Total ... 542 22 5 — 712 102 3,182 2,467 367 156 64,356 34,468 This table represents cases treated in Government Hospitals only.