Report of the Medical Officer of Health on the public health and sanitary circumstances of the city and borough of Pietermaritzburg.

  • Pietermaritzburg (South Africa). Public Health Department
Date:
[1958]
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Credit: Report of the Medical Officer of Health on the public health and sanitary circumstances of the city and borough of Pietermaritzburg. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    •33- 1958, INFANTILE M 0 R T A L I T Y (under 1 year) CAUSES OF DEATH El PROP] IAN m mu COLOURED Asiatic ALL NCN-MTrJ M F p M F P M F p M F p M 1 TP p 8, Cerebro-spinal Meningo- coccal Meningitis 2. Diphtheria 5. Pulmonary Tuberculosis 6. Tuberculosis of C.N.S. 4. Acute Miliary T.B. 7. Septicaemia 2. Bacillary Dysentery 9. Influenza - without res¬ piratory complications 2. Measles 3. Acute Poliomyelitis 3. Pklnutrition 4. Other general diseases 3. Intra-cranial abscess 2. Pneumococcal Meningitis 3. Meningitis - other forms 7. Chronic myocarditis 3. Other diseases of heart not rheumatic 2. Acute bronchitis + • Broncho-Pneumonia 5. Lobar Pneumonia 3. Pneumonia, unspecified 7. Abscess of the lung Diarrhoea & Enteritis 3. Intestinal obstruction )• Other dis. of liver Chronic Nephritis \ Congenital hydrocephalus .. Spina Bifida • Cong* malfmn. of heart A Monstrosities >• Other stated cong. malfhm. >. Congenital debility -• Premature birth . Intra-cranial haem. . Other birth injuries -• Asphyxia, atelectasis • Other specified diseases . Suicide, unspec. means . Accidental bums • Accidental mechanical suffocation • Other & unspecified accidents • Ill-defined causes . Found dead, cause unknown • Unknown/unspec• causes 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 * 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 .0 10 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 15 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 9 3 2 0 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 1 0 i 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 7 2 0 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 26 1 0 0 1 0 2 16 5 2 0 22 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 ; 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 l 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 4 3 1 0 0 0 1 0 i 0 0 0 0 “ • 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 9 4 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 15 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 12 3 2 0 17 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 15 2 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 1 I 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 cS o 2 ! 0 0 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 II 3 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 Jl 0 3 0 2 0 0 0 1 1 0 26 1 0 0 1 0 I 1 L2 5 2 0 26 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 26 5 2 2 0 0 1 0 0 3 2 4 t tf I 1 TOTAL : 6 111 17 66 40 : ID 6 4 2 6 13 13 26 83 55 : -f '38 j