Report of the Medical Services, Ministry of Health, Sudan Government.
- Sudan. Wizārat al-Ṣiḥḥah. Medical Services.
- Date:
- [1951]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Report of the Medical Services, Ministry of Health, Sudan Government. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![The view that African races lack resistance to tuberculosis is not shared by those with most experience of tuberculosis in the Sudan Tuberculosis of cattle is very rare in the Sudan. Both pulmonary and all forms of non-pulmonary tuberculosis in man are probably always due to the human type of organism. The source of infection in both varieties of the disease is probably almost exclusively the open case of human tuberculosis. Apart from the social and economic factors which everywhere play so large a part in the genesis of human tuberculosis control of the disease may be largely resolved into supervision of open cases and a system of case-finding designed to detect infection in its early stages. Preliminary steps were taken with a view to investigation of the role to be played by immunisation wuth B.C.G. vaccine in the prevention of tuberculosis, but it is not believed that immunisation can replace the less dramatic hygienic and social measures necessary for control of the disease. Table XXV. Tuberculosis. Admissions to hospital over 10 years. Year Pulmonary N on- Pulmonary Total 194] . 631 511 3,142 1942 . 67 1 505 1,3 76 ] 943 . 593 529 1,122 1944 . 796 632 1,428 ] 945 . 957 643 1,600 1946 . 888 613 1,501 1 947 . 877 599 3,476 1948 . 1,019 604 1,623 1949 1,176 650 1,826 ] 950/51 . 1,611 883 2,494 Table XXVI. Tuberculosis 1950/51. Distribution. Province Pulmonary N on- P u lm onary Total - Bahr El Ghazal 63 25 88 Blue Nile 327 169 496 Darfur . . 33 36 69 Equatoria 84 49 133 Kassala 268 174 442 Khartoum 350 221 571 Korclofan 135 94 229 Northern 264 79 343 Upper Nile 87 36 123 Total .. 3,631 883 2,494](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31639021_0028.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
