Annual report of the Medical Department / Nyasaland Protectorate.

  • Nyasaland. Medical Department
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[1952]
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Credit: Annual report of the Medical Department / Nyasaland Protectorate. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    African Officials, K.A.R. African Ranks and African Convicts) Diseases M ales Females • 1-44. 1-2 Infectious and parasitic Diseases {a) Typhoid fever 11 5 (6) Paratyphoid fever — • . — (c) Type undefined . . — • • — 3 Typhus fever — • • — 4 Relapsing fever - 237 • • 107 5 Undulant fever 1 # # — 6 Smallpox 2 • • — 7 Measles . . 137 114 8 Scarlet fever , * — — 9 Whooping-cough • . 406 • • 491 10 Diphtheria .. . . 3 • • 4 11 Influenza . , 251 88 12 Cholera .. .. • • — • • Kl 13 Dysentery— (a) Amoebic 154 53 (b) Bacillary • • 84 • • 31 (c) Unclassified • • 152 • • 54 14 16 Plague—• Acute Poliomyelitis .. 4 2 17 Encephalitis lethargica • • 1 • . — 18 Cerebrospinal fever .. • • 18 • • 2 21 Rabies # , — , , — 22 Tetanus 11 13 23 Tuberculosis of the respiratory system . . • . 200 • . 80 24-32 Other tuberculous diseases , # 108 * # 48 33 Leprosy • . 347 • • 160 34-45 Venereal Diseases— (a) Syphilis 3,683 • • 2,884 (b) Gonorrhoea 2,085 • • 829 (c) Other venereal diseases .. • . 11 # • 16 37 Yellow fever • • — • • — 38 Malaria— (a) Benign tertian 233 293 (b) Subtertian • . 3,997 • • 3,241 (c) Quartan’ , . 1,118 • . 348 (d) Unclassified # , 19,395 , . 11,107 44-6a Blackwater fever 2 — 39 Kala-azar .. # # — — 39 Trypanosomiasis • • 7 • • 4 39 Yaws 129 132 39 Other protozoal diseases —- , . — 40 Ankylostomiasis • • 5,179 • . 3,713 42 Schistosomiasis , , 7,454 3,007 41, 42 Other helminthic diseases 813 # # 462 15, 19, 20 36, 43, 44 Other infectious and/or parasitic diseases . . • • 598 • • 313 45-55 45-53 Cancer and other tumours— (a) Malignant 80 53 54 (b) Non-malignant . # 229 # # 146 55 (c) Undetermined • • 10 • • 6 56-69 56-57 Rheumatism, diseases of nutrition and endocrine glands and other general diseases— Rheumatic conditions 6,517 3,755 59 Diabetes 6 2 60 Scurvy • , 6 • . 8 61 Beriberi , , 4 # # 3 62 Pellagra 77 • • 59 58, 63, 64 Other diseases— (a) Nutritional 325 8 (b) Endocrine glands and general • • 35 . . 33 75-77 Acute and chronic poisoning .. 12 7 Carried forward 54,132 31,681