Report of the Medical Officer of Health / Municipality of Colombo.
- Colombo (Sri Lanka). Public Health Department
- Date:
- [1939]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Report of the Medical Officer of Health / Municipality of Colombo. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![(16) Infant Mortality—^Deaths at different Age Periods and from Several Causes, 1930. Age. Race. Cause of Death. Age in Weeks. Age in Months. Europeans. OT Sh CD A bL 3 Sinhalese. Tamils. Moors. M alays. Others. All Races. 1 2 3 4 Total. 2 3 4 5 6 7-9 10-12 Total. L- Developmental Disea- ses:— 1. Prematui’e birth ... 317 37 18 4 376 5 — 1 — — 1 — 7 1 9 279 51 33 7 3 383 2. Atelectasis 3 1 1 5 — — — — - - — — — — 1 2 2 — — — 5 3. Atrophy and debility 245 43 34 44 366 71 34 17 11 10 21 2 166 7 371 77 59 9 9 532 4 Rickets — — — 1 1 1 2 1 4 3 13 — 2 4 — 7 13 II.-Diseases of Respira- tory System :— 1. Laryngitis — 2. Croup — — — — — — — — — — — — — 1 ■ — — — •“ 3. Bronchitis 2 8 4 3 17 19 8 7 3 8 20 5 70 — 1 35 17 26 2 6 87 4. Pneumonia 3 5 2 10 20 36 24 21 20 19 52 33 205 — 6 138 40 27 12 2 225 5 Others — •— — — — — — 2 2 2 6 5 — 1 — — 6 III.-Diseasesof Digestive System :— 1. Diarrhoea & Enteritis — 10 12 9 31 39 33 34 34 25 47 34 246 1 11 186 28 41 6 4 277 2. Dysentery — •— — — — — 2 — 1 — — 3 — — 3 — — — 3 3. Others 4 1 3 2 10 2 1 2 1 1 3 6 16 — 2 15 4 4 1 —- 2G IV.-Diseases of Nervous System:— 1. Convulsions 29 7 6 6 48 11 4 2 1 3 10 3 34 1 l 40 19 15 5 1 82 2. Laryngismus stridu- lus 1 3. Tetanus 2 4 4 1 1 1 7 4. Others — — — — — — 1 — 3 — 4 — — 4 — — — — 4 V.-TuberculousDiseases:- 1. Tabes mesenterica... 2. Tubercular meningi- tis — — — — — — — — — — — _— — ' r '1 ——— 3. Others — — — — 1 2 1 — 3 1 8 — — 5 2 — 1 8 VI.-Accidents:— 1, Injury 15 2 — 1 18 13 1 3 1 18 2. Umbilical haemorrhage.. — — — — — — — — — — — — ■ — 1 ■ 3. Suffocation 4. Other violence — _ — — — — 1 — — — 1 1 3 1 1 — 1 — 3 VII.-InfectiousDiseases 1. Smallpox 2. Chickenpox — 1 1 1 — — — — — 1 1 1 1 1 _ ] — ■ 1 — — l O. 1V1 ticlSitJS ••• 4. Whooping cough ... — — — 1 — — — — — 1 — 1 — — — — 1 6. Mumps — — — — — — — — — —— '1 1 1 _ 1 2 —— 1 1 —— — — 2 1/ lpilLIltdl lui ••• 7. Influenza 2 3 4 5 14 23 17 14 19 17 43 15 148 — 2 60 26 62 5 7 162 8. Malaria .. — 1 — _ 1 1 — 1 2 4 5 3 16 — 2 14 — 1 17 Vlll.-Syphilis - 1 1 5 — 2 2 1 l — 1 1 — 1 10 1 — — — 12 IX.-All other causes 93 11 4 4 112 9 9 1 4 4 12 5 44 1 10 102 22 11 8 2 156 Total ... 715 134 88 90 1027 224 133 107 101 97 229 114 1C 05 4 57 1295 292 292 55 36 2032 VII.—Maternal Mortality. The maternal mortality rate corrected for non-residents was the lowest on ecord, viz., 12T as against 12’3 for the previous year and Id J the average for the )revious five years. There was a marked fall in the puerperal septicaemia late, which was 4 3, the owest on record, as compared with 61 for the previous year and 8 5 the average or the previous five years.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31495370_0037.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
