Annual medical report / East Africa Protectorate.

  • East Africa Protectorate. Medical Department
Date:
[1915]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Annual medical report / East Africa Protectorate. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    •20 TABLE SHOWING THE SICK, INVALIDING AND DEATH RATES AMONGST NATIVE OFFICIALS IN THE BRITISH EAST AFRICA PROTECTORATE. 1913. 1914. 1915. Total number of officials resident 1,728 1,966 1,888 Average number resident... 1,215 1,427 1,379 Total number on sick list... 2,922 3,060 2,639 Total number of days on sick list 20,033 18,788 13,996 Average daily number on sick list 54-88 51-47 38-34 Percentage of sick to average number resident ... 4-51 3-61 2-78 Average number of days on sick list to each patient ... 6-85 6-14 5-30 Average sick time to each resident 11-59 9-56 7-41 Total number invalided ... 10 20 17 Percentage of invaliding to total residents -57 1*02 -90 Total deaths 7 9 8 Percentage of deaths to total residents ... -40 -46 -42 Percentage of deaths to average number resident Number of cases of sickness contracted away from -57 -63 -58 residence — — — (d.) GENERAL EUROPEAN POPULATION. THE COAST ZONE. There were 73 admissions to hospital, the chief causes being, malaria (38), enteric (7), and dysentery (4); last year the admissions were 64. The four deaths recorded were due to enteric, three less than last year. No estimate of the resident population can be ventured on this year, owing to the upset caused by military operations. The births registered numbered nine. In 1914 there were seven, and in 1913 the number recorded was 13. The deaths registered were 23, as compared with 12 in 1914, and eight in 1913. THE MOUNTAINOUS ZONE. Of the 587 cases admitted for treatment 13 died, the same number of deaths as in 1914, when 352 admissions were recorded. The admissions were chiefly for:—Malaria (222), dysentery (49), enteric (24), blackwater fever (6), digestive (60), and injuries (47). The deaths were caused by enteric (3), malaria (2), blackwater fever (2), pneumonia (2), and syphilis, endocarditis, abscess of liver, and tumour (1 each). The number of births registered was 120 and deaths 51, throughout the zone. The figures in 1914 were 137 and 47 respectively. No estimate of population can be submitted this year. KENIA AND NYANZA PROVINCES. Thirty-two cases received treatment, as against 40 the previous year. There was 1 death from blackwater fever. 1915. 19U. Births reAstered ... ... 12 12 o Deaths ,, ... ... 8 3 No estimate of population can be given. [260763] 4a
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