Annual report on the work of the Ministry of Public Health / Egypt.

  • Egypt. Wizārat al-Ṣiḥḥah al-ʻUmūmīyah
Date:
[1923]
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Credit: Annual report on the work of the Ministry of Public Health / Egypt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (/) Operations. 5,541 operations were performed in the Hospital during the year. Of these 3,422 were performed in the Theatres and 2,119 in the Kushuks, Reception-Room and Outpatients. The following table shows the number of operations performed under various anaes¬ thetics :— Anesthetic. Number. Chloroform, Ether or both ... 2,001 Somnoform. 875 Stovaine (intraspinal) . 1,049 Cocaine, Eucaine, Novocaine, Eudrenine, and Stovaine (local). 1,616 Total. 5,541 The following is an analysis of the 3,422 operations performed in the different Theatres THEATRE. Total. Male. Female. Discharged. Died. General Surgical . 1,789 1,531 258 m. 1,374 F. 233 M. 157 F. 25 Ear, Nose and Throat . 186 110 76 103 75 7 1 Ophthalmic . 1,172 747 425 746 425 1 — Gynaecological . 175 — 175 — 171 — 4 Obstetric . 100 100 74 26 Total . 3,422 2,388 1,034 2,223 978 165 56 Operations performed in the Operations on the Skin and Fascia :— Esquillectomy . Genei 5 *AL SU] 4 flGICAL 1 Theate 4 »ES. 1 Secondary Suture . Thierch’s Skin Graft . 7 6 1 6 1 — — 17 14 3 14 3 — — Plastic by :— Flaps. 7 4 3 3 3 1 — Pedunculated Graft. 4 2 2 2 9 —J — — Tube Graft . 5 5 — 4 — 1 — Lymphangioplasty . . 2 1 1 1 — — 1 Extraction of Foreign Body. 27 19 8 18 8 1 — Evacuation of :— Acute Abscess. 23 20 3 20 3 — — Cold Abscess . 19 13 6 11 5 2 1 Excision of :— Ulcer. 1 1 — 1 — — — Sinus. 5 3 2 3 2 — — Scar . 7 5 2 5 2 — — Elephantiasis . 3 3 — 3 — — — Cystic Hygroma . 3 2 1 2 1 — — Granuloma. 4 3 1 3 1 — — Lipoma . 9 6 3 6 3 — — Fibroma . 2 1 1 1 1 — — Warts. 1 1 — 1 — — — Rodent Ulcer ... 4 3 1 3 1 — Epithelioma . 4 4 — 3 — 1 — Sarcoma .. . 10 8 - 2 7 2 1 — Cysts . 4 2 2 2 2 — — Exploration of Tumours . 8 7 1 6 1 1 —