Report of the Medical Officer of Health / Municipality of Colombo.
- Colombo (Sri Lanka). Public Health Department
- Date:
- [1928]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Report of the Medical Officer of Health / Municipality of Colombo. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![(18) (l) Causes of Infant Mortality, 1010 to 1928—Rate per 1,000 Births. Cause of Infant Deaths. C5 o r-H 1920 1921 1922 1923 Average, 1919-1923 1924 1925 O 05 1927 1928 Developmental Diseases 100 69 81 88 96 87 90 78 75 80 86 Pneumonia and Bronchitis 37 32 36 36 37 36 31 31 28 30 27 Digestive Diseases 34 31 32 33 37 33 34 29 28 24 20 Convulsions 71 82 69 60 68 70 59 56 52 30 22 Tetanus Neonatorum 3 2 2 2 1 2 3 2 2*2 IT 1 Tuberculosis 1 1 2 1 1 1 0*6 0*3 — 0*1 — Infectious Diseases ... 0*5 1 1 0*6 1 0*8 0*1 0*4 0*4 0*2 0*2 Syphilis 6 5 4 6 8 6 5 5 4 3*2 3*3 (19) Infant Mortality—Deaths at different Age Periods and from Several Causes. Age. Race. Causes of Death. Age in Weeks. Age in Months, GO d CS <D 00 *H o5 CO <D r-H 00 GO CO fc>-s CO GO CD o ce 1 2 3 4 c3 -4-> o 2 3 4 5 6 7-9 110-12 r-H O H O d eq fcx u P tt c3 rd .s 33 • r* a c3 H U o o a c3 c3 s <x> XI 4-J O 22 fH I.—Developmental Diseases:— 1. Premature birth 125 13 6 1 145 4 2 6 , 6 108 25 10 l i 151 1 2. Atlectasis 1 109 2 137 9 22 1 3. Atrophy and Debility 4. Others 238 17 80 38 37 393 17 49 2 45 31 2 22 21 2 45 7 30 2 243 15 — 25 3 324 14 19 3 636 32 II.—Diseases of Respiratory System :— 1. Laryngitis — 2. Croup 3. Bronchitis 4. Pneumonia — 1 1 2 4 4 4 13 4 20 4 21 5 20 18 57 10 73 45 208 — 3 12 25 134 1 6 33 7 24 3 6 1 3 45 212 1 5. Others — — — — — — — — — — — 1 1 ■ III.—Diseases of Digestive System :— 1. Diarrhoeal 2. Worms 3. Others 3 1 3 _ 3 4 _ ] 4 14 5 9 3 20 21 13 1 1 9 44 6 1 37 9 1 153 16 6 — 12 no 7 4 20 2 3 18 7 2 6 2 1 167 16 11 IV.—Diseases of Nervous System:— 1. Convulsions 31 19 6 7 63 21 20 25 12 19 29 19 145 i 3 124 34 33 7 6 208 2. Laryngismus streidulus — 10 12 ' Q 5 4 12 3. Tetanus 2 — — l 3 8 4. Others — 1 — 1 2 — 1 — — 1 3 6 O z V.—Tuberculous Diseases:— 1. Tabes messenterica ... — — — — — — — 1 — — 2. Tubercular meningitis 3. Others , __ — _ — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — VI.—Accidents:— i l 2 1. Injury 2 — — — 2 — ' ' _ 2. Umbilical hemorrhage — — — — 1 l i , .. _ 3 3. Suffocation — — —— 3 1 1 4 i 5 4 Other violence 4 — — 4 — — — — — — VII.—Epidemic, Endemic, and Infectious Diseases:— 1. Smallpox — — ^___ . _ - - 2. Chickenpox — — — — — — ' ‘ 3. Measles 4. Whooping cough — — — — — 1 — — — — 1 — 2 — — — i 1 — — 2 5. Mumps — _ . . . _ — 6. Diphtheria _ _ _ _ 7. Cerebro-spinal fever... — — — — — — ' 1 _ _ - _ 8. Scarlet fever VIII.—Syphilis IX.--All Other causes 3 1 3 2 Q 4 5 7 13 3 18 9 22 6 23 1 13 3 15 1 30 1 37 24 158 — 1 4 25 93 4 26 33 1 9 6 31 171 Total ... 430 134 80 61 685 118 132 132 88 95 240 224 1029 2 73 982 274 285 57 41 1714 Percentage on Total Infant Deaths .. 25T 7-8 3-5 36 400 6*9 7-7 7*7 51 5-5 14-0 13-1 60-0 •12 4'3 57-3 16-0 16-6 3'3 2'4 VII.—Infectious Diseases. (General.) Statements 20 and 21 give the incidence of the principal infectious diseases in the town for 1919-1928. . Plague showed a decrease of 411 cases from that of 1927 and there was a slight diminution in the number of cases of continued fever. Chickenpox and measles occurred in an epidemic form, the former chiefly during the first five months of the year, and the latter during the last five months. Phthisis showed an increase of 100 cases over that of the previous year while among most of the other infectious diseases there was only a slight variation.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31495278_0025.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
