Administration report / Public Health Department, Colombo Municipality.
- Colombo (Sri Lanka). Public Health Department
- Date:
- [1907]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Administration report / Public Health Department, Colombo Municipality. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![(b) Municipal midwives. The work done by the Midwives is shown in the three statements below. 476 confinements were attended, and 479 infants were born. 37 out of the 479 infants died representing a rate of 077 per 1,000. 29 of these were still births and the remaining 8 died within 4 days of birth. No case of Ophthalmia neonatorum was reported by the Municipal Midwives. TABLE XLV. («) Statement of cases conducted by Municipal Midwives during, 1907. name. DIVISION. r-i G s a cn 2nd Quarter. 3rd Quarter. 4th Quarter. ’cS G H S. Fernando St. Paul’s G 7 7 7 27 Agida Perera Kotahena 23 23 27 46 119 Nonno Hamy San Sebastian 18 13 10 19 66 M. P. Muruger St. Paul’s 20 20 14 30 90 Caroline Caldera ... Slave Island 19 10 — — 29 Amy de Silva Slave Island — —. 26 50 76 Sarah Dias New Bazaar 24 12 10 17 69 116 85 100 169 476 TABLE XLY1. (A) Statistics of cases conducted by Municipal Midwives during, 1907. 1 Division. Name of Midwife. Bug hers, j Sinhalese. Tamils. Moors. Malays. Others. All Races. Total Births. Deaths. Death rate per¬ cent. Males. ; . i rji G r—< c3 a o m G i—-i Cw S CL G 13 a G Males. 1 Females. Males. Females. ! Males. ! Females. Males. Females. Males. Females. I. St. Paul’s ! Mrs. S. Fernando 1 2 0 6 1 4 3 2 _ _ 1 1 12 15 27 2 7*41 II. Kotahena Agida Perera 12 10 35 34 13 0 3 3 1 — 1 1 65 54 119 9 7’56 III. St. Sebastian Nonno Hamy 2 4 15 19 3 3 5 4 2 4 5 27 39 66 5 7’58 IV. St. Paul’s | Mary P. Mumger 1 1 7 9 34 34 5 — — — — — 47 44 91 9 9’89 V. Slave Island ( Caroline Caldera ] 2 — 7 10 4 3 i — 1 1 — — 15 14 Q 1 Amy de Silva j 2 — 15 21 9 7 — 1 9 13 — — 35 42 1UO VI. New Bazaar ; Sarals Dias 5 3 18 20 5 2 6 8 2 1 36 34 70 4 5-71 Total of each sex... 25 20 103 119 69 59 23 18 15 19 2 7 237 242 479 37 772 Grand Total 45 222 128 41 34 9 479 Includes three multiple birth*. TABLE XLV11. (c) Births and deaths. Race. Births. Deaths. Death-rate per cent. Persons. Males. Females. Persons. Males. Females. All races 497 237 242 37 14 23 772 Burghers • • • 45 25 20 4 3 1 8'39 Sinhalese 222 103 119 15 7 8 676 Tamils 128 69 59 15 3 12 1172 Moors 41 23 18 2 1 1 4’88 Malays 34 15 19 1 — 1 2*94 Others 9 2 7 0-00](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31492046_0026.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
