Annual report / Medical Department, Fiji.

  • Fiji. Medical Department
Date:
[1949]
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Credit: Annual report / Medical Department, Fiji. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    APPENDIX IX. Return of Diseases and Deaths for the year 1949, at the Colonial War Memorial Hospital, Labasa, Lautoka, Levuka and Tamavua Hospitals. Note.—This classification is based on the International List of Causes of Death, 1929. Diseases. Europeans. _ Fijians. Indians. Others. Total. CO +3 Diseases. <D Q Europeans. Fijians. Indians. Others. Total. Deaths. I—Infectious and Parasitic Brought forward 52 612 775 95 1534 183 Diseases. Typhoid Fever 4 54 82 7 147 11 Other Diseases due to Protozoa— Paratyphoid Fever i 14 18 . . 33 (a) Framboesia (Yaws) .. 1 54 . . 4 59 . . Typhus (b) Spirochaetosis Icterohaemorr- Relapsing Fever hagica Undulant Fever . . . . 1 • . 1 Ankylostomiasis 1 10 24 . . 35 . . Smallpox (Variola) .. Hydatid cysts Measles . . 2 . . 1 3 .. Other diseases due to Helminths— Scarlet Fever 8 8 Whooping Cough l 7 6 1 15 (b) Filariasis 16 3 2 21 . , Diphtheria .. (c) Taeniasis . • 1 1 . . 2 . . Influenza 9 101 229 20 359 (d) Oxyuris Vermicularis Cholera (e) Others 1 1 . . . , 2 . . Dysentery—• Mycoses (excluding purely dermal (a) Amoebic 5 9 32 4 50 1 mycoses)— (b) Bacillary 4 26 129 2 161 4 (a) Actinomycosis (c) Mixed . . 5 . . 5 (b) Others including sprue (d) Undefined or due to other Other infectious or parasitic dis- causes 5 5 10 1 eases—- Plague .. (a) Vaccinia (Cowpox) .. Erysipelas (b) Other sequelae of vaccination Acute Poliomyelitis or polioenceph- (c) German measles (Rubella) .. 1 1 2 . • 4 alitis (d) Chicken-pox (Varicella) 1 8 2 11 Encephalitis Lethargica (e) Mumps and its complications 1 1 . . 2 Cerebro-spinal Fever 1 1 .. (/) Dengue U 3 4 1 22 Glanders .. (g) Glandular Fever Anthrax (h) Others 1 , . , . 1 Rabies Tetanus— Total 70 701 826 104 1701 183 1 1 9 1 (b) Other forms .. 16 12 28 7 Tuberculosis of the Respiratory II—Cancer and Other system 16 276 144 42 478 133 Tumours. Tuberculosis of the Central Nervous Cancer or other malignant diseases system • . 5 3 1 9 9 of the buccal cavity, pharynx Tuberculosis of the Intestines or and oesophagus . . 2 3 . . 1 6 2 Peritoneum , . 4 2 1 7 Cancer or other malignant tumours Tuberculosis of the Vertebral of the digestive organs and peri- column , , 16 2 2 20 2 toneum— Tuberculosis of other Bones and (a) Stomach 6 1 7 4 Joints . . 14 8 . • 22 (b) Liver and biliary passages .. . . 3 3 • . 6 2 Tuberculosis of the Skin or Sub- (r) Rectum . . 2 4 • . 6 . . cutaneous tissue (Lupus) , . 1 , . , , 1 .. (d) Others . . 1 3 . . 4 1 Tuberculosis of the Lymphatic Cancer or other malignant tumours system • . 11 • • 2 13 .. of the respiratory organs 2 1 1 1 5 3 Tuberculosis of the Genito-urinary Cancer or other malignant tumours system . . 2 . . 1 3 .. of the uterus 1 3 16 . . 20 1 Tuberculosis of other organs . . 2 . . 1 3 Cancer or other malignant tumours Tuberculosis disseminated . . 10 3 1 14 10 of other female genital organs .. 1 2 4 . . 7 1 Leprosy . . 5 22 1 28 .. Cancer or other malignant tumours Syphilis— of the breast . . 3 1 . . 4 1 (a) Primary 3 • • 11 2 16 Cancer or other malignant tumours (b) Secondary . . • • 2 2 of the male genito-urinary organs 1 2 1 . . 4 (c) Tertiary 4 i 5 .. Cancer or other malignant tumours (d) Congenital 1 • • 3 4 of the skin 10 2 4 3 19 1 Other Veneral Diseases— Cancer or other malignant tumours (a) Soft Chancre .. of organs not specified . . 2 3 6 1 12 3 (b) Gonorrhoea 4 22 33 3 62 .. Non-m'alignant tumours— (c) Gonorrhoeal Ophthalmia • . 3 3 .. (a) Female genital organs 1 8 9 2 20 . . (d) Other Gonorrhoeal complica- (b) Other sites 2 3 11 . . 16 . . tions .. 5 12 17 .. Tumours of undetermined nature— (e) Granuloma Venereum (a) Female genital organs 1 . . 1 . • (/) Tropical bubo (Lymphogra- (b) Other sites . . 1 2 . . 3 . . (g) Mixed Venereal infections .. Total 22 37 72 9 140 19 (a) Septicaemia .. 2 1 3 2 (b) Pyaemia 1 . • 1 1 III—Rheumatism, Diseases of (c) Gas Gangrene 1 . . 1 1 Nutrition and of Endocrine Yellow Fever .. Glands and Other General Malaria— Diseases. (a) Benign Tertian 2 1 2 5 Rheumatic Fever— (b) Quartan (a) With cardiac involvement .. , , 5 21 2 28 3 (c) Sub-Tertian .. (b) Without cardiac involvement 4 17 2 23 (d) Mixed 1 1 • • • • 2 (e) Subacute Rheumatism I 5 23 1 30 • •
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