Annual report of the Superintending Medical Officer / Jamaica.

  • Jamaica. Medical Department
Date:
[1926]
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Credit: Annual report of the Superintending Medical Officer / Jamaica. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Return showing proportion of sickness treated within and outside the Hospital to the number of prisoners, male and female, year ending 31st December, 1926. Daily average number in custody Greatest number in custody any one day Daily average number of sick in Hospital Greatest number of sick in Hospital in any one day Daily average number of sick treated outside of Hospital Greatest number of sick treated outside of Hospital on any one day 228 Males. Females. Total 649 87 736 726 116 842 49 3 52 75 6 81 203 4 207 y 228 6 232 Return of Cases treated in the Hospital for the year ending 31st December, 1926. Diseases. Males. Females. Total. General Diseases— Debility Enlarged Gland Anaemia Infective Diseases— Fever (ephemeral) Enteric Fever Malarial Fever Syphilis Influenza Ankylostomiasis Yaws Diseases of the Respiratory System—• Asthma Pulmonary Tuberculosis Bronchitis Pleurisy c effus'on Catarrh Diseases of the Circulatory System.— Ulyocarditis Diseases of the Digestive System— Colitis Gastritis Haemorrhoia Constipation Dysentery Strangulated Hernia Dyspepsia Jaundiee Diseases of the Genito-Urinary System— Phymosis Albuminaria Chancre Gonorrhoea Gonorrhoea Warts Orchitis Cystitis Diseases of the Nervous System:— Neuritis Alleged Lunacy Paralysis Epilepsy Neuralgia Diseases of the Connective and Muscular System:—• Rheumatism Bubo Whitlow Abscess Boils Lumbago Diseases of the Organs of Special Sense— Iritis Ophthalmia .. .. . . Otitis Diseases of the Skin— _ Eczema Ulcer g§S Ringworm Pellagra .. .. -5 27 1 5 233 6 10 5 1 1 3 2 1 IS 1 1 29 1 6 246 7 11 5 1 1 3 22 1 23 2 3 5 1 1 4 t]E& • | «• 4 3 • ■* 3 3 8 62 6 68 2 8 10 1 JMsj 1 .. 1 1 20 * *1 20 1 • 0 1 3 2 5 2 «TT» 2 1 1 1 1 2 14 14 5 • • 5 1 • a 1 4 # # 4 1 1 5 5 11 «T* 11 2 • • 2 10 •'T* 10 1 «n 1 34 4 38 13 # # 13 10 10 46 2 48 45 • * 45 1 *v» 1 21 *_• 21 5 1 6 3 3 22 2 24 30 3 33 10 1 11 7 1 8