Annual report on the medical services / Sierra Leone.

  • Sierra Leone. Medical Department
Date:
[1949]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Annual report on the medical services / Sierra Leone. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    AFRICANS—continued No. Diseases In-Patients Deaths Out-Patients 14. Acute Poliomyelitis M • F. M. F. M. F. 15. Encephalitis Lethargica — — — — — — 16. Cerebro-Spinal Fever 8 7 J 4 7 4 17. Rabies — — — — — — 18. Tetanus 50 32 25 15 5 14 19. Tuberculosis of the respiratory system 61 37 17 12 65 29 20. Other Tuberculous Diseases 6 6 1 — 10 1 21. Leprosy 2 — — — 51 32 22. Venereal Diseases :— (a) Syphilis 38 10 6 1 605 178 (g) Gonorrhoea .. 121 31 — — 3,269 661 (c) Other Venereal Diseases 158 71 3 — 832 480 23. Yellow Fever 3 — 1 — — — 24. Malaria :— (a) Benign (b) Subtertian. 134 189 6 1 1,003 422 (c) Quartan — — — — — — (d) Unclassified .. 303 159 5 10 7,296 4,221 25. Blackwater Fever — — — — — — 26. Kala-azar — — — — — — 27. Trypanosomiasis .. 15 16 — —• 27 15 28. Yaws 25 13 — — 4,394 2,967 29. Other protozoal diseases 6 7 — — 10 11 30. Ankylostomiasis .. 19 19 — 2 188 187 31. Schistosomiasis . . 3 5 — — 48 17 32. Other Helminthic diseases .. 10 15 2 — 2,119 2,106 33. Other Infectious or parasitic diseases 61 19 4 1 242 135 34. Cancer and other tumours :— (a) Malignant 9 13 1 1 2 (g) Non Malignant 11 14 — — 2 2 (c) Undetermined 39 16 1 1 55 19 35. Rheumatic Conditions 63 41 — — 4,635 2,418 36. Diabetes 14 7 — 1 1 — 37. Scurvy — — — — — — 38. Beriberi .. — — — — — -- 39. Pellagra — 1 — — — — 40. Other Diseases :— {a) Nutritional 64 73 16 6 1,794 1,800 (b) Endocrine glands and general — 2 — — — 1 41. Diseases of the blood and blood- forming organs .. 67 78 12 5 999 819 42 Acute and Chronic poisoning — 1 — 1 — 1 43. Cerebral Haemorrhage 16 6 5 3 — 2 44. Other diseases of the nervous system 51 21 6 2 770 434 45. Trachoma — 2 — — 13 18 46. Other diseases of the eye and annexa .. 55 20 — — 1,338 798 47. Diseases of the ear and mastoid sinus 12 3 — — 605 459 48. Diseases of the Circulatory System :— {a) Heart 57 20 19 4 189 74 (b) Other circulatory diseases 25 15 9 — 54 15 49. Bronchitis 69 43 — 2 3,081 1,727