Annual medical and sanitary report / Tanganyika Territory.

  • Tanganyika. Medical Department
Date:
[1926]
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Credit: Annual medical and sanitary report / Tanganyika Territory. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Yaws and Syphilis—continued. Yaws Syphilis Yaws Syphilis Brought forward . . 67,976 12,932 Brought forward 78,788 15,530 Pangani 890 66 Tanga 1,558 345 Handeni . . 157 — *Korogwe . . 675 1,118 Songea 1,580 113 *Kwa Mkono 17 — Tabora 544 458 Moa 614 159 Kahama . . 984 487 *Mkuzi 616 — Negezi 198 135 *Msalabani 3,263 202 Nzega 672 169 *Muheza . . — — *Ndala 2 7i *Tongwe .. i57 9 Shinyanga.. 484 433 Tukuyu 281 36 *Sekonge & Ipole 11 168 Mwaya 4>695 50 *Usoke 197 218 Utete 7T43 33 Usumbwa . . 5,093 280 Carried forward . . 78,788 15,530 Total .. 97,807 17,483 * Cases treated by the Staff of Medical Missions, f Cases treated by S.A.S. employed by the Rosehaugh Coy. The treatment with Bismuth Sodium Tartrate is becoming increasingly popular and patients undertake long and sometimes dangerous journeys, of their own freewill, to attend for relief. The following extract from the Senior Medical Officer’s Annual Report from Mwanza is among others an eloquent example. “ 1,564 were treated. The number was somewhat less than last year, but the last three months, the numbers have increased. Most of the cases, as heretofore, have come from the islands of Ukerewe and Ukara. More and more are coming from Ukara, es¬ pecially women and children, with typically secondary eruptions. Ukara must be very heavily infected, judging from the numbers attending. It is a densely populated island, and the inhabitants wear extremely scanty clothing, so there is more chance of infection than in other parts with a scattered population. Patients are now coming more as out-patients than in-patients. It says a lot for their belief in the treatment when young children and babies, to say nothing of the conservative aged, are brought in frail canoes over the stormy waters of the Speke Gulf weekly, for an injection.” The figures for the four years 1923-1926 are as follows :— Yaws. Syphilis. 1923 .. .. 3,616 2,667 1924 .. .. 20,751 4,348 1925 .. .. 75,638 11,829 1926 .. .. 97,807 17,483 Totals .. 197,812 36,327 (b) Vital Statistics. (1) General Native Population. The most recent estimate of the population of the Territory is computed at 4,319,000. No reliable statistics relating to Birth, Death and Infant Mortality Rates are available at present. (2) General European Population. Acknowledgment is made to the Registrar General of Births and Deaths for a return of the registered deaths, a total of 52, which are summarised as follows :— Blackwater Fever .. .. . . 10 Cerebro-Spinal Fever .. .. .. 1 ,, Meningitis Pneumococcal .. 1 Cerebral Haemorrhage .. .. 2 Cardiac Failure .. .. .. 5 Cancer .. .. .. .. 1 Fracture, Base of Skull, accidental .. 1 Carcinoma of Colon .. 1 Cirrhosis of Liver .. . . 1 Drowning, accidental .. 1 Diphtheria .. .. .. 1 Embolus .. .. .. 1 Enteritis .. .. .. 1 Pneumonia .. .. 1