Administration report / Public Health Department, Colombo Municipality.

  • Colombo (Sri Lanka). Public Health Department
Date:
[1917]
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Credit: Administration report / Public Health Department, Colombo Municipality. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    27/60 (page 13)
    ( 13 ) With a view to the prevention of Enteric fever in Colombo, it is essential that not only should the work of connecting latrines to the sewers be pressed on as fast as possible, but also that every other measure which will tend to reduce the prevalence of flies should be adopted. Thus the open storing of manure for garden purposes, and the top-dressing of grass fields with manure and scavenging rubbish in proximity to residential quarters must be rigorously put down, otherwise there is no hope of controlling the fljr nuisance with its associated dangers of Enteric, Dysentry, Diarrhoea of infants, &c., and with this object in view the introduction of a By-law was recom¬ mended ( Report 573 of 7th December, 1917 ). Remittent Fever.— Deaths 44. Rate (H7 per 1,000. Intermittent Fever.—Deaths 1. Rate 0*004 per 1,000. ( See remarks under Malaria). 12. Plague. No. 18.—Plague 1917. Cases Reported. Monthly Incidence. 1/ Mean Rainfall Mean Month. Plague cases. temperature. (inches). Humidity. o/ January 25 78-2° 4*34 75 February 40 78-8° o‘ 57 79 March 61 79-8° 10-03 82 April 34 82-2° 4-78 82 May 11 820° 5-59 80 J une 3 81-0° 5‘4l 84 July 6 81-8° 1-71 80 August 1 81*2° 2-28 80 September 3 79-9° 12-74 83 October 7 79*8° 4*24 80 November 10 792° 1-1-04 82 December 6 77-6° 4-30 80 Total ... 207 Mean 80*1° Total 72*03 Mean 81 N o. 19.— -Plague Cases 1917. Rate per 1,000 living at each age period. Calculated on the population at Census Age period. No. of cases. Case 0 to 5 y ears 6 •29 5 years to 10 years 19 *89 10 59 15 59 19 •77 15 20 59 43 1-80 20 25 59 27 1-00 25 30 55 22 •89 30 35 55 20 1*10 35 40 9’ 15 107 40 50 95 15 •85 50 99 60 95 7 •65 60 years and over. 14 1*62 All ages • • • 207 •97 ]^o. 20.—Plague Cases 1917. Distribution by Race, Age and Sex, Race, d <D d d> O tH O 08 r—I O Cw d >> O d d> O <M O fi H d d) >> O CO u d CD CO o u d d) >> o o d d) o o 4^ go d <v O o u d> > o 03 H c$ d> >> n d> ci <3 O d d> d o S i V-< d 4^ d o H -4J 1-H d © ^ A dt O m ►, s.2 •3 43 0*45 1 § £& H t, 73 P* t) Oi So •eft ~ d> Vl o lO o iH H o IO o cc CO o o < H A 0 dt fi O gs All races...- f M IF 4 2 7 12 13 6 35 8 22 5 18 4 15 5 11 4 12 3 6 1 12 2 m} 207 •80 196 94-7 *76 Europeans.. f M IF __ _ _ — — — — — — — — -} - — — — — Burghers, -j r m IF — 1 — i — — — — — — — }} 2 •12 2 100-0 •12 Sinhalese. - fM IF 2 2 4 4 8 4 8 5 2 5 2 3 i 2 4 1 1 i £} « *56 61 93'8 '52 Tamils ...- f M If i . 3 2 3 2 14 2 12 10 1 ii 3 8 2 4 2 4 2 1 11} 87 139 83 95-4 1-32 Moors ...-< f m IF i 4 1 10 1 3 fi 3 1 0 4 2 4 3fi} 40 •88 39 9 7 5 •86 Malays ...-j f M IF 1 — 1 _ — 1 i ~ —^ — 2} 1 •62 1 100‘0 62 Others ...-! r m IF — — 1 1 5 — — 2 — — — 9} y 1‘22 7 t 78 *95 15 15