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

  • Sudan. Wizārat al-Ṣiḥḥah. Medical Services.
Date:
[1958]
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Credit: Report of the Medical Services, Ministry of Health, Sudan Government. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Species of Parasite in 7009 positive slides Province P. Falciparum P. Vivaz P. Malaria Bahr El Ghazal 430 35 Blue Nile 980 97 — Darfur ... 416 25 -—• Equatoria 2383 93 121 Kassala 537 81 — Khartoum 143 oo Kordofan 839 105 23 Northern 255 16 _ Upper Nile 242 62 104 Total 6225 536 248 (ii) Blachwater Fever. No case was reported this year, last year 22 cases were recorded. Table IX (iii) Relapsing Fever, Cases and Deaths over 10 Years Year C&S6S Deaths 1948 . 287 8 1949 . 376 3 1950'51 . 36 2 1951 '52 . 12 0 1952/53 . 97 14 1953/54 . 91 8 ] 9o4/oo ... ... ... ... ••• 3 1 1955/56 . 1 -—- 1956/57 . 4 — 1957 '58 . Delousing with D.D.T. powder is in force for all immigrants from the west at frontier posts where the disease used to be imported in the past. (iv) Leishmaniasis. Cases recorded this year were .3939 as compared with 7463 cases in last- year i.e. nearly half the number of incidence. This was the result of the special campaigns mobilised in Upper Nile and Blue Nile to check the disease. More investigations were also carried out in the hope of finding any reservoir in animals and trying to specify the type of sandfly responsible as a vector. 17