Swaziland report / Commonwealth Relations Office.

  • Great Britain. Office of Commonwealth Relations
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[1960]
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Credit: Swaziland report / Commonwealth Relations Office. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and Pigg’s Peak. The prevalence of gastro-enteritis is related to the lack of kraal hygiene and is particularly prevalent among bottle-fed babies. Other conditions causing significant numbers of deaths were traumatic conditions and diseases of the heart, while the conditions causing most attendance at hospitals were acute upper respiratory conditions, including influenza and acute bronchitis, diseases of the digestive system and diseases of the genito-urinary system. The number of cases di_agnosed as “influenza” has continued to rise since 1957 when the epidemic of “Asian Influenza” occurred, and the combined total of cases diagnosed as influenza, acute bronchitis, coryza an acute upper respiratory tract in¬ fections over the past 10 years makes interesting reading and is as follows:— 1951 2,913 1952 3,078 1953 4,481 1954 4,464 1955 3,500 1956 5,213 1957 9,327 1958 12,750 1959 12,557 1960 15,048 During 1960, enteric fever was again more prevalent than usual, there being 191 cases with 14 deaths, as against the average annual figure of 70-100 cases. The number of cases or deaths in respect of certain significant diseases over the past three years is as follows:— 1958 1959 1960 C D C D C D Tuberculosis (all forms) Malnutrition — 983 50 1015 58 1129 68 Kwashiorkoir 512 26 421 21 423 30 Pellagra . 131 5 601 3 693 5 Scurvy . Malnutrition, — — 53 — 40 1 unqualified 768 22 953 13 1,040 30 Infantile Gastro- enteritis . 2,895 42 3,597 43 4,327 47 Pneumonia (all types) 1,288 46 1,546 43 1,857 65 Disease Control The malaria position remained satisfactory at the beginning of 1959/60 tranmission season, with only the occasional indi¬ genous case of malaria occurring, and with the efforts of the Malaria Control Unit being concentrated on finding and treating the fairly numerous cases of malaria among the immigrant
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