Africa : blackwater fever in the tropical African dependencies : reports for 1913.

Date:
1915
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Credit: Africa : blackwater fever in the tropical African dependencies : reports for 1913. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    t The replies were published [Cd. 6514] and presented to both Houses of Parlia- ment. The report from Southern Nigeria was not included in the above Command paper, but was published separately. ; The reports on blackwater fever for the year 1912 were published in the Parlia- mentary Paper [Cd. 7211]. The report for Nyasaland corresponded with the financial year 1912-13, to the end of March of the latter year. The present paper contains the reports for 19138. The report for Nyasaland was prepared on the basis of the Calendar year, but the reports on the cases which occurred in the first quarter of the year, and which were included in the report, for 1912-13, are not reprinted. | Medical men entitled to speak with authority on the subject of blackwater fever have criticised the form and substance of these annual reports, and it is proposed to introduce considerable changes in both respects. It will necessarily be some time before these changes can take effect. GOLD COAST. Tut GOVERNOR to tHE SECRETARY OF STATE. (Received 23rd March, 1914.) SIR, Government House, Accra, 3rd March, 1914. I HAVE the honour to transmit, herewith, in duplicate, a copy of a letter from the Acting Principal Medical Officer, covering reports on nineteen cases of black- water fever which occurred in the Gold Coast and its dependencies during the year 1913. T have, &c., H. BRYAN, Deputy Governor. Medical Department, Sir, Victoriaborg, Accra, 26th February, 1914. I HAVE the honour to forward, for your information and transmission to the Secretary of State, the Clinical Reports, &c., of nineteen cases of blackwater fever that occurred in this Colony and Ashanti during the year 1913; no case was reported from the Northern Territories. 2. Two fatal cases were reported, but as the patients were not attended by a Medical Officer, I was unable to procure any details of the illness. 3. It is difficult to account for the marked increase in the number of cases which occurred during 1913; although there was an increase in the number of cases, . the disease appears to have run a mild course in the majority of cases compared with previous vears. The following table shows the number of cases and death-rate since 1910 in blackwater fever cases :— Year. | Cases. | Deaths. | Death rate per 1,000 cases . / | 19070 Yau. On aie ae 20 | 10 | 500°CO (O11 han eamera tire dees 44 14 | 6 | 498-57 CNL wear gore alt eras arnt Peer, 3 6 | 461-53 1913 = ae i ae a a 7 333°33 * Vide paragraph 2, supra, 4. I regret I have been unable to furnish maps and temperature charts in all of the cases. | I have, &c., E. H. T'weepy, The Honourable _ Acting Principal Medical Officer. the Colonial Secretary, Victoriaborg, Accra.