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:
[1961]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    - 14 (5) TUBERCULOSIS Cont»d. NON-PULMONARY TUBERCULO SIS 1961. N 0 T I ] ? I C ATI 0 N £ D EAT H S Eur. Bantu Col. As. All Non Eur, Total Eur. Bantu Col, As, All Non- Eur. Total fuly,193 5-June,1936 3 3 1 6 10 13 1 2 0 2 4 5 1936- 1937 2 8 0 5 13 15 1 4 0 3 7 8 1937- 1938 5 10 3 6 19 24 3 1 2 3 6 % 9 1938- 1939 1 3 0 3 6 7 0 2 0 2 4 4 1939- 1940 2 3 1 3 7 9 1 2 1 0 3 4 1940- 1941 3 2 P 3 5 8 2 1 0 0 1 3 1941- 1942 2 7 2 7 16 18 1 3 1 3 7 8 1942- 1943 1 3 4 2 9 10 1 1 1 3 5 6 1945- 1944 1 4 o 3 7 8 0 5 1 3 9 9 1944- 1945 2 6 1 8 15 17 0 3 2 5 10 10 1945- 1946 1 5 3 3 11 12 1 4 1 3 8 9 1946- 1947 j 1 8 3 2 13 14 Q 11 3 3 17 17 1947- 1948 *5 9 1 4 14 19 1 8 1 2 11 12 1948- 1949 0 7 0 7 14 14 1 7 1 2 10 11 » 1949- 1950 0 . 12 2 10 24 24 1 3 1 2 6 7 1950- 1951 1 10 5 12 25 26 0 6 1 2 9 9 1951- 1952 0 7 1 9 17 17 1 2 0 1 3 4 1952- 1953 1 6 0 4 10 11 0 7 1 1 9 9 Fan, ,1954-Dec. ,1954 1 7 0 5 12 13 0 2 0 3 5 5 ran. -Dec.,1955 1 4 1 3 8 9 1 3 0 0 3 4 it _ » 1956 0 1 0 1 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 1! _ 1957 4 2 1 1 4 8 0 2 1 1 4 4 ft _ 1958 1 4 1 2 7 8 0 4 0 1 5 5 II _ 1959 0 3 1 3 7 7 1 3 0 1 4 5 11 _ 1960 0 1 2 2 5 5 0 4 0 0 4 4 II _ 1961 0 3 0 4 7 7 0 1 0 1 2 2 * Includes 1 case also notified as Pulmonary Tuberculosis. There was a definite improvement in the notifications of this disease in all races this year. The total of deaths was slightly less than last year. Approximately 26% of the total expenditure by this Department was under the head Anti-Tuberculosis Measures, MINIATURE MASS RADIOGRAPHY. In 1954 the City Council installed a 70 mm. Miniature X-Ray set (a fixed unit) in the Public Health Department. The following table indicates the type of patient coming to or being referred to the unit for a miniature X-Ray :- (See page 46 for detailed break¬ down of these figures). European N-European Total Referred ex Bantu Pass Office med. exam. mm 14,509 14,509 Referred for Pre-employment X-Ray 120 425 545 Referred by Employers 237 1,085 1,322 Referred by Doctors 186 961 1,147 Referred by Health Visitor 119 470 589 Applied Voluntarily for Miniature X-Ray 423 402 825 Follow-up X-Rays of cases attending Municipal Clinics or in T.B. or other Hospitals 62 956 1,018 Total Persons X-Rayed J 1,147 _1 18,808 19,955 /