Annual medical and sanitary report / Nigeria.

  • Nigeria. Medical Department.
Date:
[1918]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Annual medical and sanitary report / Nigeria. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Invaliding and Deaths. European Non-Officials. Cause. Invalided. Died. Influenza . 2 14 Blackwater Fever . ... 5 Malaria, Aestivo-Autumnal . 8 4 Pneumonia . • • • 1 Yellow Fever. ... 1 Arthritis . 1 1 Delusional Insanity. 1 ... Abscess Mastoid . ... 1 Fracture Skull . • • • 1 Nephritis . 1 Abscess . 1 Cardiac Valvular Disease.. L Gastritis . 1 Phthisis Pulmonalis. 6 Anaemia . . 1 Bronchitis . . 1 Dysentery . 1 Neurasthenia. .' 3 • • • Total . 27 29 (h)—NON-OFFICIAL NATIVE POPULATION. The total estimated population of the Colony and Southern Provinces is based on the census of 1911 and is as follows:— Africans ... ... ... ... 7,856,000 East Indians ... ... ... ... 99 Mixed and Coloured ... ... ... 487 Total ... ... ... 7,856,586 Registration is compulsory in the Township and Ebute Metta only. The statistics are as follows:— Total Births ... ... ... ... 2,514 Total Deaths ... ... ... ... 3,228 Total Deaths of Infants under one year 830 Total Still-births ... ... ... ... 151 Infant Mortality per 1,000 Births ... 330*1 III.—SANITATION. (A).—GENERAL REVIEW OF WORK DONE, LAWS PASSED AND PROGRESS MADE. (I).—Administrative. 1. This report covers the sanitary work conducted during the last year of the war. 2. The existing conditions adverse to any striking sanitary progress, as mentioned in the report for 1917, have continued, neverthe¬ less routine sanitary work has been carried out ancj the sanitary condition of stations well maintained with the stalf apd money available.