Report on the public health / Southern Rhodesia.

  • Southern Rhodesia. Department of Health.
Date:
[1952]
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Credit: Report on the public health / Southern Rhodesia. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (c) Cost of maintenance, Curative Services and Institutions 40.6 (d) Grants to Medical Missions . 3.9 (e) Grants to local authorities for health purposes . 4.8 (f) Cost of Maternity Services . 6.1 By rough estimate 12.5 per cent, of the total medical and health budget of the central government is allotted for administration and public health and 87.5 per cent, for medical care. This represents for the financial year 1950*51 an expenditure of 1.74 shillings per head of the population on administration and public health, and 12.16 shillings on medical care. (2) Population oj Southern Rhodesia. The population is estimated as at the 30th June, each year:_ 1950 1945 1940 Europeans . 129,000 80,500 61,450 Asiatics . 3,600 2,970 2,540 Coloured Persons . 5,200 4,280 3,420 Africans . 1,957,000 1,607,000 1,367,000 Total . 2,094,800 1,694,750 1,434,410 The next census of the first three categories of the population is due to be held in May, 1951. (3) Summarised Vital Statistics. The vital statistical information concerning the European population is given below and is compared with the data of five and ten years ago: — 1950 1945 1940 Estimated European population . 129,000 80,500 61,450 Rate of natural increase for 1,000 of the population . 19.6 16.8 19.6 Gross number of immigrants . 16,179 1,745 1,157 Number of European births . 3,395 2,038 1,748 Illegitimate births included above . 50 32 22 Annual birth rate per 1,000 . 26.3 25.3 28.4 Number of European deaths . 860 687 544 Annual crude death rate per 1,000 . 6.7 8.5 8.9 Number of infant deaths . 118 72 71 Infant mortality rate per 1,000 live births . 35 35 40 Number of still births (not included in either births or deaths) . 54 33 33 Number of maternal deaths . 7 8 5 Maternal mortality rate per 1,000 live births . 2.1 3.9 2.9 European Birth Rates. 1950 1945 1940 Southern Rhodesia . 26.3 25.3 28.4 England and Wales . 15.8 17.8 14.6 Union of South Africa . 25.7 25.4 25.4 (5) European Infant Deaths. (I) Causes of Death, 1941*50. Disease 7\[o. o Premature birth and diseases of early infancy Diarrhoea and enteritis . Bronchitis and pneumonia . Malaria . Measles, whooping cough, diphtheria and dysentery . Other causes of infant death . Deaths Percentage of Total 467 54.5 97 11.3 66 7.7 55 6.4 27 3.2 145 16.9 857 100.0