Annual medical and sanitary report / Uganda Protectorate.

  • Uganda Protectorate. Medical Department.
Date:
[1922]
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Credit: Annual medical and sanitary report / Uganda Protectorate. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Table IX. Table showing the causes of Invaliding amongst European Officials DURING THE PAST SIX YEARS. DISEASES. 1922. 1921. 1920. 1919. 1918. 1917. Totals. Blackwater Fever 2 — 1 1 1 1 6 Circulatory Affections ... — — — — 1 — 1 General Debility — — 1 4 1 1 H 1 Nervous and Mental Diseases 1 — — 1 1 1 4 Neurasthenia 4 — 5 — Q L- 1 12 Tuberculosis 1 — 1 — 1 1 4 Digestive Disorders — — — — 1 — 1 Carcinoma — — — — 2 1 3 Alcoholic Neuritis — 1 — — — 1 2 Neuritis — — — — — 1 1 Amoebic Dysentery — — — 1 2 — 3 Adenitis — — — — 1 — 1 Anaemia and Chronic Bronchitis — — — 1 — — 1 Cardiac Debility — — — 1 — — 1 Eczema — — — 1 — — 1 Malaria — — 1 2 — — 3 Rheumatism — — 1 — — — 1 Villous Papilloma of Bladder — •— 1 — — — 1 Henoch’s Purpura 1 — — — — — 1 Alcoholism ... 1 — — — — — 1 Chronic Parenchymatomo Nehritis ... 1 — — — — — 1 Nervous Breakdown 1 — — — — — 1 Malaria, Heart and Defective Eyesight 1 — — — — — 1 Cerebral Congestion 1 — — — — — 1 Asthma and General Debility 1 — — — — — 1 Chronic Malaria and Anaemia 1 — — — — — 1 Excitability and Dilated Heart 1 — — — — — 1 Hernia 1 1 Totads 18 1 11 12 13 8 63 European Non-Officials. The total number of cases treated at Government Hospitals and Dispensaries during the year was 1,024, as compared with 676 in 1921 and 383 in 1920. The principal causes of sickness were:—■ Malaria ... ... 289 Black water Fever ... 9 Dysentery ... ... 9 Influenza ... ... 13 Diseases of the digestive system 225 Deaths :—18 Cerebral Malaria ... 1 Acute Nephritis ... 1 Blackwater Fever ... 3 Atelectosis ... 1 Catarrhal Colitis ... 1 Cancer ... ... 1 Natural death ... 1 Tetanus ... ... 1 Diseases of the respiratory system Pyrexia of uncertain origin Debility ... Neurasthenia Burns and Asphyxiation Heart Disease Puerperal Pyaemia Sudden death after delivery shock Misadventure (took poison in error) Peritonitis following operation ... Dysentery Motor Accident 43 31 50 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 ] 1 The Census taken during 1921 showed that there were 924 European Non- Officials in the Protectorate; 553 males and 371 females. (D) Asiatic Officials. The total number of cases treated during the year was 2,338 with 4 deaths, as compared with 1,636 with 1 death in 1921 and 1,136 with 2 deaths in 1920. The deaths were due to the following causes:— Toxaemia ... ... ... 1 Blackwater Fever ... ... ... 2 Pneumonia ... ... ... 1