Report of the Medical Services, Ministry of Health, Sudan Government.

  • Sudan. Wizārat al-Ṣiḥḥah. Medical Services.
Date:
[1951]
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Credit: Report of the Medical Services, Ministry of Health, Sudan Government. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Diphtheria 1950/51. Distribution. Province Cases Deaths Blue Nile 210 33 Darfur 13 3 Equatoria 4 3 ] Kassala 71 10 Khartoum 109 11 Kordofan . . 36 4 Northern .. 84 14 Upper Nile 7 1 Total 57 3 77 (c) Dysentery. 6,261 cases wore admitted to hospital. 139 deaths were reported. 67,053 cases were diagnosed at out-patient centres. These figures compared with the reported incidence in previous years, show no significant change. Differentiation between amoebic and bacillary infections was not generally possible. There was probably a tendency to include too many cases in the former group on a clinical diagnosis only. (d) Enteric fever. The mean of the recorded annual incidence during the ten years ending 1949 is 195.6, with 116 cases in 1946 and 336 cases in 1940 as the extreme figures. Table XXIXI shows a relative increase above the mean figure and above the comparatively high incidence of the previous 12 months. Table XXIII. Enteric fever : Incidence and deaths by provinces. 1949 and 1950/51. Province 1949 1950/51 (1 8 months) Cases Deaths Cases Deaths Bahr El Ghazal .. Blue Nile 107 6 115 11 Darfur 19 1 5 — Equatoria 25 2 101 4 Kassala 22 3 67 3 Khartoum 65 5 103 8 Kordofan .. 4 2 — — Northern . . 50 4 146 3 Upper Nile 19 1 23 — Total 311 24 560 29
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