Medical and sanitary report / Government of the Gold Coast.

  • Gold Coast. Medical Department.
Date:
[1918]
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Credit: Medical and sanitary report / Government of the Gold Coast. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TABLE V. Return of Diseases and Deaths (In and Out-Patients) for the Year 1918. Disease. Remaining in Hospital at end of 1917. Yearly Total. Total Cases Remaining in Hospital at end of 1918. Remarks, New Cases Deaths. treated Infective Diseases. Beri-Beri _____ 6 1 6 _ Chicken-Pox 7 575 — 582 5 Dengue ... — 3 — 3 — T. , ( Amoebic 16 16 ysen eiy -j Unallocated 4 396 15 400 3 Endocarditis—infecti ve... — 1 1 1 — Enteric ... — 6 — 6 — Erj'-sipelas — 1 — 1 — Gonorrhoea o 1,196 1 1,198 4 Influenza — 7,756 204 7,756 8 Leprosy— (a) Nodular ... 3 15 1 18 3 (b) Anaesthetic 1 — — 1 — Malaria— (a) Tertian ... — 825 — S25 _ (b) Quartan ... — 84 — 84 — (<■;) Aestivo-Autumnal 1 353 5 354 6 (d) Chronic Malaria 3 64 — 67 _ (e) Black water — 17 4 17 1 ( f) Unallocated 9 1,825 4 1,834 1 Malta Fever _ 9 _ 9 Measles ... 2 78 — 80 _ Pneumonia — 356 67 356 1 Rheumatic Fever — 9 1 9 __ Septicaemia — 29 6 29 — Trypanosomiasis (Sleeping Sickness) 10 10 Small-Pox — 5 — 5 — Syphilis— (a) Primary ... — 69 — 69 1 (6) Secondary 3 319 4 322 2 (c) Inherited... — 28 — 28 — Tetanus ... _ 26 1 26 Tuberculosis 3 236 33 239 — Whooping Cough — 120 — 120 — Yaws — 440 1 440 1 Yellow Fever — 3 — 3 — Pyrexia, unknown origin 1 984 1 985 6 Other Diseases ... — 64 — 64 — Intoxications. Alcoholism 25 _ 25 Others ... — 3 — 3 — General Diseases. Anaemia ... _ 232 232 2 Diabetes... — 1 — 1 _ Exophthalmic Goitre ... — 2 — 2 —