Report on the public health / Southern Rhodesia.

  • Southern Rhodesia. Department of Health.
Date:
[1929]
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Credit: Report on the public health / Southern Rhodesia. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Table XY1II. Return of diseases and deaths (in-patients) in all Government hospitals for the year 1929. EUROPEANS. Diseases INFECTIVE DISEASES. Cerebro spinal fever . Diphtheria . Dysentery—Amoebic . Bacillary . Enteric . Erysipelas . Influenza. Malaria—(a) Tertian . (b) Quartan . (c) /Estivo autumnal . (d) Chronic . (e) Blackwater. Malta fever. Pneumonia. Rheumatic fever . Septicaemia . Trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness) . Syphilis—(a) Primary . (b) Secondary . (c) Inherited ... . Tetanus . Tuberculosis . Whooping cough . Others . INTOXICATIONS. Alcoholism . GENERAL DISEASES. Anaemia . Anaemia—Pernicious Diabetes . Exophthalmic goitre Gout . LeucocytliEemia . Hodgkin’s disease .. Purpura . Others . LOCAL DISEASES. Diseases of the nervous system— Sub-section 1— Neuritis . Meningitis . Myelitis. Encephalitis . Abscess of brain . Congestion of brain . Sub-section 2— Apoplexy . Paralysis . Chorea . Epilepsy . Neuralgia . Hysteria. Others . Sub-section 3—Mental diseases— Idiocy . Mania . Dementia . Others .. ... in hospital at end of 1928 Yearly total Total cases treated Remaining ; in hospital | at end of 1929 Admis¬ sions Deaths 5 5 5 17 5 17 3 67 1 70 2 4 4 1 12 57 12 69 5 2 1 2 2 141 1 143 i 10 436 8 446 7 37 1 37 3 173 5 176 i 23 1 23 22 4 22 i 6 6 l 7 79 13 86 l 2 11 13 l 1 5 3 6 ... 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 i 1 12 38 8 50 9 4 4 12 ... 12 1 14 15 16 16 1 1 1 i 7 i 8 3 3 1 1 1 1 2 l 2 1 1 22 l 22 1 3 36 39 4 4 4 4 4 4 2 2 2 3 3 3 11 3 11 1 8 2 9 2 1 5 6 4 4 1 4 1 26 26 1 4 4 11 11 2 2 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 1