Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the Colony on the public health ... / Cape of Good Hope.
- Cape of Good Hope (South Africa). Department of Public Health.
- Date:
- [1904]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the Colony on the public health ... / Cape of Good Hope. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![A—3 ANNEXURE “ A.” Table No. I. Nomenclature of Diseases adopted in the classification of the Causes of Death registered under the provisions of the “ Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1895,” in the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope. X.B.—The names of the diseases included under the term “ others ” is in every case to be specified. DISEASES. CLASS I.—DISEASES DUE TO SPECIFIC ORGANISMS, Sub-Class I.—Zymotic Diseases : 1. Small-pox— (a) Vaccinated (b) Unvaccinated (c) Not stated 2. Chicken-pox 3. Measles 4. Rotheln 5. Scarlet Fever G. Typhus 7. Relapsing Fever 8. Influenza 9. Whooping Cough 10. Mumps 11. Diphtheria and Membranous Croup 12. Cerebro-spinal Fever 13. Cerebro spinal Meningitis 14. Typhoid (Enteric) Fever 15. Typho-Malarial Fever 16. Simple Continued Fever 17. Epidemic Pneumonia 18. Remittent Fever 19. Intermittent Fever (Malarial Fever, Ague) 20. Asiatic Cholera 21. Simple Cholera 22. Diarrhoea 23. Dysentery 24. Tuberculosis— (a) Phthisis (Pulmonary Consump¬ tion) (b) Tubercular Meningitis (c) Tabes Mesenterica (cl) Other forms including Scrofula and Lupus 25. Leprosy 26. Rabies (Hydrophobia) 27. Glanders (Farcy) 28. Splenic Fever (Anthrax) 29. Syphilis 30. Gonorrhoea (including Stricture of Urethra, Gonorrhoeal Rheumatism, Buboes, (kc.) 31. Erysipelas, Cellulitis 32. Pyaemia, Septicaemia, Hospital Gan¬ grene 33. Tetanus 34. Puerperal Fever 35. Plague 36. Beri Beri 37. Others (including all cases medically certified as “ Fever ”) Sub-Class'II.—Parasitic Diseases : 1. Thrush, Stomatitis 2. From other vegetable parasites 3. Hydatids 4. From other animal parasites — DISEASES. CLASS II.—DIETETIC DISEASES AND CHRONIC POISONING. 1. Starvation—Want of breast milk 2. Scurvy 3. Rickets 4. Intemperance— (a) Chronic Alcoholism (including affections of special organs) (h) Delirium Tremens 5. Chronic Opium Poisoning 6. Plumbism 7 Others ; CLASS III.- CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES. 1. Rheumatic Fever. Rheumatism of the Heart. 2. Rheumatism (subacute and chronic) 3. Osteo-arthritis 4. Gout 5. Cancer (Malignant Disease)— («) Sarcoma (/;) Carcinoma (c) Epithelioma (d) Undefined 6. Anaemia, Chlorosis 7. Others CLASS IV.—DEVELOPMENTAL DEFECTS AND DEGENERATION. 1. Premature Birth 2. Accidents occurring during birth 3. Atelectasis 4. Cyanosis (Malformation of Heart) 5. Hydrocephalus 6. Spina Bifida 7. Imperforate Anus 8. Cleft Palate and Hare Lip 9. Dentition ] 0. Haemorrhagic Diathesis 11. Old Age (Senile Decay) 12. Others CLASS V.—LOCAL DISEASES. Sub-Class I.—Diseases oe the Nervous System : 1. Acute Inflammation of the Brain or its Membranes 2. Softening of the Brain 3. Other Diseases of the Brain 4. Diseases of the Spinal Cord 5. Paralysis (Hemiplegia, Paraplegia) 6. Insanity 7. Chorea 8. Epilepsy 9. Convulsions 10. Laryngismus Stridulus (Spasmodic Croup) 11, Others](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31482004_0035.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
