Annual report of the Medical and Sanitary Department / Sierra Leone.
- Sierra Leone. Medical and Sanitary Department
- Date:
- [1927]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Annual report of the Medical and Sanitary Department / Sierra Leone. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![(iv)— Health of African Officials. Table showing the Sick, Invalidings, Death-rates of African Officials. — 1925. 1926. 1927. Total number of officials resident 1,009 1,200 1,200 Average number resident ... 997 1,000 1,000 Total number on sick list 1,121 950 933 Total days on sick list ... 8,735 5,375 7,919 Average daily number on sick list ... 23-93 14-72 21-69 Percentage of daily sick to average number resident ... 2-40 1-47 2T6 Average number of days on sick list to each patient • • • 7*79 5’65 8-48 Average sick time to each resident • • • 8-76 5-37 7-91 Total number invalided • • • 18 6 20 Percentage of invaliding^ to total resident ... 1-78 •50 1-66 Percentage of invalidings to average number resident ... 1-80 •60 2-00 Total deaths ... 10 4 4 Percentage of deaths to total residents ... •99 •33 •33 Percentage of deaths to average number resident 1-00 •40 •40 Causes of Invalidings and Deaths of African Officials. Causes. Invalided. Died. Double inguinal hernia and chronic rheumatism 1 Pulmonary tuberculosis 3 . . . Intermittent albuminuria and glycosuria 1 2 Neuritis and defective vision 1 Delusional insanity 1 Ataxia and peripheral neuritis 1 Epilepsy 2 Chronic arthritis and D. A. A. ... ] Senility and chronic prostatitis 1 Fibrosis of lung and cardiac hypertrophy ... 1 Cardiac disease 1 Cardiac hypertrophy and arterio-sclerosis ... 1 Corneal opacity following corneal ulceration 1 Arterio-sclerosis 1 • • • Incipient dementia 1 Chronic asthma 1 • • • Stricture of urethra and orchitis ... 1 1 Fracture of skull (result of an accident) — 1](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31491686_0015.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
