Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health [to] the Corporation of the City of Capetown.

  • Cape Town (South Africa). City Health Department.
Date:
[1921]
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Credit: Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health [to] the Corporation of the City of Capetown. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    There were 91 persons who died in public institutions and nursing homes who came from beyond the boundaries of the City for treatment, and who had been in the institutions long enough for their deaths to be considered as belonging to the City, and these were allocated to the Wards of the City in which the institutions to which they were admitted are situated. The following figures show the number of these cases for each Institution, and the Ward to which they were allocated: — Deaths. Institutions. Wards. E. 0. 1 6 10 Old Somerset Hospital 2 2 New Somerset Hospital 2 1 # # Magdalena Huis Maternity Home .. 13 ] Ladies’ Christian Home 5 3 Nazareth House 6 2 3 Oude Molen Chronic Sick Hospital 11 41 21 Valkenberg Mental Hospital 10 1 House of Correction 6 56 35 Totals. There were also 31 deaths in institutions which were allocated to the Wards of the City in which the institutions are situated, as the cases were admitted to the institutions from un-ascertained addresses in the City. They were mostly of the vagrant classes. The following is the enumeration of same: — Dea ths. Institutions. Wards. E. 0. 5 • 5 Old Somerset Hospital ... 2 2 1 New Somerset Hospital ... 2 . . 1 Woodstock Cottage Hospital 8 . , 2 Rosebank Cottage Hospital L0 1 • , The Monastery, Sea Point 1 1 Dorcas hi omes 4 1 . . 1 Lady Buxton Home 10 2 Ladies’ Christian Home ... 5 2 2 Oude Molen Chronic Sick Hospital ... 11 2 1 Valkenberg Mental Hospital 10 . 3 Capetown Gaol 6 15 16 Totals. -— In order to ascertain a corrected death-rate for visitors, those persons dying within the City whose homes are outside are excluded, leaving the deaths for the City for all diseases, after deducting these deaths, 652 males and 5T8 females of the European population, and 1,234 males and 1,263 females of the non-European population. For the City the death-rates for all diseases, corrected for visitors are 12’03 for Europeans, 30'64 for non-Europeans and 20’41 for All Classes, as compared with the corresponding figures for the previous year of 11*08 for Europeans, 2T'06 for non-Europeans and 18*36 for All Classes. The corresponding figures for the year 1918-1919 were 22.08 for Europeans, 66-09 for non-Europeans, and 42‘42 for All Classes, which rates, after deducting the deaths caused by the epidemic of Spanish Influenza in October, 1918, become 12-75 for Europeans, 29.68 for non- Europeans and 20.58 for All Classes. The accompanying figures will allow of some comparison being made of the death-rates in the City of Capetown, with those of England and W ales, 96 great towns and 148 smaller towns in England and Wales, London, and the other large towns in South Africa. But as death-rates are materially influenced by the pro¬ portions of persons living of the two sexes at different ages, it is usual to multiply