Report of the Medical Services, Ministry of Health, Sudan Government.
- Sudan. Wizārat al-Ṣiḥḥah. Medical Services.
- Date:
- [1961]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Report of the Medical Services, Ministry of Health, Sudan Government. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Enteric Fever : Province Distribution 1960/61 Province Gases Deaths Bahr E] Ghazal 1 1 Blue Nile 290 6 Darfur •—■ •-* Equatoria 9 ■- Kassala 33 •-* Khartoum 155 0 Kordofan ... ... ... ... ... ..^ 6 '- Northern 74 1 Upper Nile ... 10 —* Total r i [ I 00 1 C 1“ T i 1 14 Table XVIII Enteric Fever : Recorded Incidence in the Last Ten Years Year ./Recorded Case Deaths 1951/52 . 578 52 1952/53 . 598 63 1953/54 . 560 42 1954/55 . 548 34 1955/56 . 449 23 1956/57 410 31 1957/58 .. 361 32 1958/59 . 687 19 1959/60 . 763 35 1969/61 . 578 14 (vii) Gastro-Enteritis of Children: Records of hospitals and dispensaries regis¬ tered 178,743 cases of which 5,151 required hospitalization, with 424 deaths, with a fatality rate of 8.2 per cent of the total admissions. (viii) Leprosy : During the year 730 new cases were diagnosed of which 494 were equally distributed between Equatoria and Bahr El Ghazal Provinces. (ix) Poliomyelitis : 119 cases recorded this year of which 95 received hospital treatment ; none was fatal. Last year 328 cases with 30 deaths were reported. (x) Hydrophobia : 11 cases of human rabies were recorded during the year. (xi) Small Pox : The total number of cases reported was 162 with no deaths as compared with 336 cases and 9 deaths last year. 146 of this year’s cases were reported from the Blue Nile Province.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31494559_0028.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
