Annual report of the Medical Department / Federated Malay States.

  • Federated Malay States. Medical Department
Date:
[1935]
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Credit: Annual report of the Medical Department / Federated Malay States. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Notes on Other Diseases. (i) Leprosy.—The recorded number of new cases of leprosy detected and segregated during the year was 443 compared with 436 in 1934 and 378 in 1933. Leper settlements are dealt with in section VII (B), page 38. Modern treatment has been conti¬ nued at the Sungei Buloh Settlements but it is disappointing to note that the number of patients discharged was only 51 compared with 163 discharged last year. This is due partly to the fact that “burnt out” cases of leprosy, although no longer infective, have to be retained in the settlement because they cannot earn a living or have nowhere to go. Formerly some of these cases were transferred to the decrepit settlements. Full details of the work done will be found in the report on leper settlements on page 38. (ii) Enteric Fever.—The number of cases diagnosed as enteric fever was ‘282 compared with 178 in 1934. There were 64 deaths compared with 40 deaths in 1934. (iii) Tropica] Typhus.—The number of admissions during the year was 190 with 16 deaths compared with 225 and 18 deaths in the previous year. The disease is now widely distributed over the country. The decreased incidence has not vet been «. *• explained. (iv) Leptospirosis.—There were twenty cases diagnosed with four deaths. These cases were distributed in Perak, Selangor and Pahang. No ease occurred in Negri Sembilan. (v) Japanese Fiver Fever.—Four cases of Japanese river fever occurred with one death. Two of these were Europeans, both recovered; in one of the European cases the eschar was on the forearm, an unusual site. (vi) Cancer.—The number of patients in Government hospitals recorded as suffering from malignant tumours was 475 of whom 175 died as compared with 423 of whom 162 died during the year 1934. Racial Incidence of Certain Diseases Among Hospital In-patients. . Chinese. Indians. Malays. Others. Diseases. Admissions. Deaths. Admissions. Deaths. Admissions. Zf: 33 cr <3j p Admissions. Deaths. Malaria 6,448 389 13.654 269 1,594 i 285 10 Dysentery and diarrhoea Pneumonia and broncho- 896 250 1,893 283 232 u 107 3 pneumonia 936 591 1,472 595 89 21 37 16 Pulmonary tuberculosis ... 1,037 504 665 256 143 21 26| 8 Cirrhosis of liver ... 245 97 70 30 22 4 10 6 Chronic ulcer 1,327 2 874 — 448 1 48 1 Beri-beri ... 426 50 22 2 56 1 2 _ Appendicitis 89 3 138 3 19 — 47 — *