Annual medical report on the health and sanitary condition of the Nyasaland Protectorate for the year ended 31st December, 1917.

  • Nyasaland. Medical and Sanitary Services.
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[1917]
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Credit: Annual medical report on the health and sanitary condition of the Nyasaland Protectorate for the year ended 31st December, 1917. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Table YII.—Out-Patients—Continued. RETURN OF DISEASES (OUT-PATIENTS) FOR THE YEAR 1917. Diseases. Male. Female. Brought forward 9 Infective Diseases. Dysentery 140 19 Enteric 1 — Erysipelas — 1 Gonorrhoea 20 5 Influenza 3 — Leprosy:—Nodular 1 — Malaria:—Aestivo-autumnal 53 13 Chronic Malaria 86 30 Black-water ... 1 — Measles 1 — Pneumonia ... 10 4 Relapsing Fever 1 — Mumps — 1 Syphilis—Primary 17 — Secondary 24 19 Tertiary 1 — Tuberculisis ] 1 Whooping Cough 2 1 Yaws 1 6 Pyrexia of unknown origin 139 12 Intoxications. Alcoholism 2 Pellagra 1 — General Diseases. Aneasmia O O Diabetes — 1 Gont 1 / Debility 4 3 Rickets 1 1 Rheumatism ... ... ... 93 7 Lumbago 16 12 Local Diseases. Nervous System:—Parlysis Hypertrophic Neuritis 3 _ Paralysis 1 _ „ Pseudo-hypertrophic muscular 1 — Epilepsy o O — Neuralgia 160 11 Hysteria 1 — Yetigo 2 — Headache 79 35 Neurasthenia 4 Mental Diseases—Insomnia 2 Idiocy.. -- 1 Dementia 1 Delusional Insanity — 1