Report of the Medical Officer of Health on the public health and sanitary circumstances of the city and borough of Pietermaritzburg.

  • Pietermaritzburg (South Africa). Public Health Department
Date:
[1960]
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Credit: Report of the Medical Officer of Health on the public health and sanitary circumstances of the city and borough of Pietermaritzburg. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INDEX REPORT „ page (1) ]:l4TT]Ri\L CONDITIONS AND STATISTICS . 1 ^ 7 i^steorological Records .. 1 j-eading Vrbal S'batistics . 2 Popiilation .. 3 Births . 3 Deaths - Total ........... 4 Death Rates (Abbreviated List) ..... 5 Deaths - Seasonal Variations . 6 Deaths - Suinmary of Causes ...... 7 (2) INFECTIOUS DISEASE . 0 - 19 Total Notifications and Incidence ..... 8 Isolation Hospital ..... 9 Non-European Infectious Diseases Hospital ... 9 Ambulance ... 9 Laboratory Work .... 9 - 3.0 Notifiable Infectious Diseases (a) Anthrax ...... 10 (b) Smallpox .......... 10 (c) Diphtheria ........ 10 - 11 (d) Scarlet Fever .... 11 (e) Cerebrospinal Fever ... 12 (f) Anterior Poliomyelitis .... 12 (g) Encephalitis....... 12 (h) Enteric Fever ..... 32 - 13 (3) TUBERCULOSIS ... 13 - I6 (4) VEIEREAL DISEASE . I6 - 18 (5) PIAGUE . 18 (6) aiHER COMyiUNICABIE DISEASES . 19 i) Pklaria ..... 19 il) Bilharzia .... 19 iii) Enteritis ...... 19 iv) Mumps ...... 19 v) I'feasles ..... 19 vi) Chicken Pox... ^9 vii) Whooping Cough........ 19 (7) WATER SUPPLY ... 20 (8) iriGHTSOIL AI'D DISPOSAL . 20 (9) I-EAT SUPPLIES ... 20 - 21 (10) MILK SUPPLIES . 21 (11) OTHER FOOD SUPPLIES .. 21 - 22 (12) miER^IITY AID CHILD VJEUARE . 22 - 24 infantile Mortality Rate . 22 -23 iaternal Mortality and Maternal Welfare .. 23 -24 (13) EY-IAW NOTICES AND PROSECUTIONS . 24