Annual report of the Medical and Sanitary Department / Sierra Leone.

  • Sierra Leone. Medical and Sanitary Department
Date:
[1923]
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Credit: Annual report of the Medical and Sanitary Department / Sierra Leone. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    49. Table showing causes of death :— Embolism following wound of foot 1 Peritonitis, acute 1 Pneumonia 1 Total 3 50. Table showing causes of illness :— Malaria 74 Nervous system, mental... 2 Digestive system 16 All other causes 108 Diseases of ear and nose 2 Inflammation of lungs ... 7 Syphilis 3 Diseases of circulatory system 2 Diseases of respiratory system 12 Local injuries 38 Diseases of the blood ... 1 Gonorrhoea 31 Diseases of the eye 13 Soft chancre ... 7 Diseases of the skin 12 Other diseases due to infection ... 9 Diseases due to metabolism and nutrition 1 Rheumatic fever 2 Measles 2 Total 342 (c) Sierra Leone Battalion, W. A. F. F. 51. The following table gives the sick and death-rates :— Average Strength of Total Number of Death-rate Total Number of Daily Average Sick Battalion during 1923. Deaths. per 1,000. Men on Sick List. per 1,000. 351 5 14-24 1,223 2-73 (d) POLICE. 52. The following table gives the sick and death-rates :— Total Number of Total Number of Death-rate Total Number of Daily Average Sick Men under Command. Deaths. per 1,000. Men on Sick List. per 1,000. 302 — — 202 1-82 (vi) Hill Station European Reservation. (Between 700 and 900 feet above Freetown and overlooking it and connected with it by a winding railway about five miles long and a good motor road.) 53. The average number of residents at Hill Station during the year was sixty-four, divided as follows :— Official ... ... ... 34 Military ... ... ... 5 Missionary ... ... ... 1 Non-officials and wives of above 24 (vii) GENERAL TABLE OF INVALIDINGS AND DEATHS OF EUROPEANS. 54. In the following table the figure for “others” under total resident is taken from the 1921 Census and is therefore only approximate. Total Resident. Deaths. Invalided. Officials, including W.A.F.F. 188 14 Imperial Military 291 2 16 Others 420 not available not available
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