Annual report of the Medical Department / Colony of Singapore.
- Singapore. Medical Department
- Date:
- [1949]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Annual report of the Medical Department / Colony of Singapore. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![APPENDIX X—continued Keturn of Diseases and Deaths for the Year 1949—continued Diseases Remaining at end of 1948* Ye ABLY Total Total cases treated t Remaining at eiid of 1949 } Remarks Admis¬ sions Deaths Brought forward 720 7,370 1,045 8,090 709 III.—■RheumatismDiseases of , Nutrition and of Endocrine Glands and. other General Diseases—(contd.) 66. Diseases of the thyroid and parathyroi d glands:— (1) Simple goitre 1 23 24 (2) Exophthalmic goitre 43 9 43 7 (3) Myxoedema, creti- nism . , 1 1 . . (4) Tetany . . 3 3 . . (5) Others . . . . . , 2 2 67. Diseases of the thymus . , , . 68. Diseases of the adrenal glands (excluding tuberculosis) . . 2 2 2 69. Other diseases of metabolism, etc. 7 3 7 IV.—Diseases of the Blood and Blood Forming Organs 70. Haemorrhagic conditions:— (1) Purpura 1 22 11 23 2 (2) Haemophilia 3 l 3 71. Anaemia and chlorosis:— (1) Pernicious anaemia . . 1 1 1 (2) Splenic anaemia 7 . * 7 1 (3) Chlorosis . . . . (4) Secondary anaemia 7 20 27 3 (5) Tropica] macrocytic anaemia (i 1 6 •• (6) Others . . 10 98 5 108 8 72. Leukaemia:— (1) Leukaemia 7 4 7 (2) Hodgkin’s disease . . 9 4 9 2 73. Diseases of the spleen not elsewhere mentioned . . 2 1 2 74. Other diseases of the blood and blood forming organs V.—Chronic Poisoning 75. Alcoholism (acute or chi’onic) including inebriety 1 24 25 76. Poisoning by other organic substances (not by violence):— (1) Opium . . 5 19 24 1 (2) Morphia, cocaine . . (3) Others . . 1 1](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31415003_0203.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
