Report of the Medical Officer of Health / Municipality of Colombo.
- Colombo (Sri Lanka). Public Health Department
- Date:
- [1911]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Report of the Medical Officer of Health / Municipality of Colombo. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![No. 18 (b) Causes of Deaths of Town Residents which occurred in the Colombo Hospitals during the Year 1911. © Ward. Nationality. > p © © j d _o Hospitals. 1J CO Sh CO g ® S © a © «P C Causes of Deaths. £ oo ® o£rP h -g-a .OR L S’S 5 OH O TJ e cS -p p O Pettah. San Sebastia: i St. Paul’s. i Kotahena. New Bazaar. i Maradana. Slave Island. i Kollupitiya. X H U oS £ -P CO 3 H © *co © Ph o EH Outside. i Unknown. Europeans. Burghers. Sinhalese. Tamils. Moors. Malays. j Others. ■ ■ ■ --—-—- All Causes . . 00 00 CO 129 39 140 75 84 196 49 87 35 — — — 18 48 358 320 51 7 37 I.'Specific, febrile, or zymotic diseases 179 I 1 21 8 22 16 22 44 12 27 6 5 22 96 36 8 3 9 II. Parasitic diseases 27 — 6 — 6 2 3 3 2 3 2 — — — — — 8 17 ' 2 III. Dietetic diseases 15 — 3 1 3 — — 3 — 4 1 — — — — — 5 10 IV. Constitutional diseases 116 — 15 2 15 10 16 31 7 11 9 — — — 3 7 53 35 i 205 1 1 2 1 1 5 V. Developmental diseases VI. Local diseases 6 431 4 71 24 1 87 1 37 1 37 1 96 1 26 1 35 14 _ — — 9 17 4 162 27 20 1 VII. Violence .. 28 — 5 2 — 4 2 7 1 5 2 — — — — 1 15 9 2 VIII. Ill-defined and not specified 11 1 25 diseases 37 — 8 2 6 5 3 — 1 — — — 1 1 i 6 I. 1. Miasmatic diseases 111 1 11 5 12 10 14 28 10 15 5 — — — 3 21 65 11 3 3 5 2. Diarrhoeal diseases 3. Malarial diseases 49 6 — 10 1 7 1 3 1 7 10 3 1 9 1 1 — — — 1 1 — 22 2 20 2 6 — t> 1 4. Zoogenous diseases 5. Venereal diseases 8! 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 — — — — 1 4 1 2 — — 6. Septic diseases II. Parasitic diseases 5 27 — 6 1 1 6 1 2 3 1 3 2 1 3 2 — — — — — 3 8 2 17 10 — — 2 III. Dietetic diseases 15, — 3 1 3 — — 3 — 4 1 — — — — — 5 11 9 IV. Constitutional diseases 116 — 15 2 15 10 16 31 7 11 9 — — — 3 7 53 So 1 Z l o V. Developmental diseases 6 — — — 1 1 1 1 1 1 4 Diseases of— i 1 6 17 1 VI. 1. Nervous system 31 — 2 1 1 5 1 9 3 7 2 — — — 5 1 2. Organs of special sense 3. Circulatory system 32 1 3 2 4 2 2 9 2 3 4 — — — 2 1 19 52 43 8 55 105 2 10 7 — 1 9 4. Respiratory system 5. Digestive system 132 170 2 1 22 35 6 12 27 38 14 9 9 14 31 36 12 7 6 14 3 4 — — — 5 O r 3 l 6 6. Lymphatic system and ductless glands 7. Urinary system 27 , 3 2 8 3 5 2 1 2 1 — — — — 2 6 16 2 — 1 8. Reproductive system— 1 o 1 1 (a) Organs of generation 5 — — — — 1 3 o o 8 A 1 (6) Parturition 15 — — 1 4 3 1 4 — 2 Z 1 9. Organs of locomotion .. 10. Integumentary system 1 18 — 6 — 4 — 4 2 1 1 — — — — 1 — 4 10 3 — — VII. 1. Accident or negligence.. 25 _ 5 2 — 4 2 4 1 5 2 — — — — l 12 9 2 — 1 2. Homicide 2 3. Suicide 4. Execution 1 1 — — VIII. 1. Ill-defined and not speci¬ fied causes 37 — 8 2 6 5 3 11 — 1 1 — — — 1 l 25 7 3 — ! _ Miasmatic Diseases. 9 Smallpox 4 — 1 1 2 1 Z Chickenpox 1 | 1 Measles Whooping cough .. Mumps 1 € Diphtheria 3 — — — 2 ' ■ O Typhus Cerebro-spinal fever Simple and ill-defined fever 15 18 63 10 Q 1 5 Enteric fever 103 1 c 5 11 9 13 27 8 5 — — 3 O Suspected enteric fever 1 Influenza Other epidemic diseases Diarrhoeal Diseases. Cholera 1C > — a 1 1 1 2 _ 1 1 _ . _ — 4 4 1 — 1 Diarrhoea £ 1 4 1 9 Dysentery 34 — 7 _ 6 9 ! 4 1C — 4 1 — 14 16 Z > —— Z Malarial Diseases. 1 l Remittent fever .. £ — — — 1 3 1 — — — 1 — 2 Ague 1 Malarial cachexia ] | Zoogenous Diseases. • Hydrophobia Glanders Cowpox and other effects of vacci ‘ nation Venereal Diseases. Syphilis Gonorrhoea, stricture of urethra . — — ] ] l 1 9 ] ] — — — — 1 4 1 2 1 — —](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3175353x_0030.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
