Report of the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services / [Ceylon].

  • Ceylon. Civil Medical Department.
Date:
[1943]
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    DEPARTMENT OF MEDICAL AND SANITARY SERVICES. ADMINISTRATION REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF MEDICAL AND SANITARY SERVICES FOR 1943. SECTION 1.—VITAL STATISTICS The Registrar-General has furnished the following figures: — Estimated population for mid-year, 1943 Total births Birth rate Total deaths Death rate Infant deaths Infant death rate Maternal deaths Maternal death rate 6,134,000 248,820 40-6 131,061 21 -4 32,851 132 3,321 13 -3 All Causes I. Table of the Main Causes of Deaths registered in Ceylon for 1943. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. Infectious and Parasitic Diseases Typhoid fever and paratyphoid fever Diphtheria Influenza Dysentery Tuberculosis of the Respiratory system Tuberculosis of other organs Disseminated Tuberculosis f ^cut,e k Unspecified Malarial Fever and Malarial Cachexia Black water fever Ankylostomiasis Cancer and other Tumours Cancer and other malignant tumours Rheumatic Diseases, Nutritional Diseases, Diseases of the Endocrine Glands, and other General Diseases Acute rheumatic fever f Rickets * Mandama Diseases of the Blood and Blood-making Organs Chronic Poisonings and Intoxications Diseases of the Nervous System and of the Organs of Special Sense Infantile convulsions (age under 5 years) Diseases of the Circulatory System Diseases of the Respiratory System Bronchitis Broncho-pneumonia (including Capillary Bronchitis) Lobar Pneumonia Pneumonia, unspecified Diseases of the Digestive System Diarrhoea and enteritis (under 2 years of age) .. Do. (2 years and over) Non-Venereal Diseases of the Genito- Urinary System and Annexa Diseases of Pregnancy, Child-Birth and the Puerperal State Puerperal Haemorrhage Puerperal Sepsis, not returned as post-abortive Puerperal AJbummuria and Convulsions Diseases of the Skin and Cellular Tissue Diseases of the Bones and Organs of Locomotion Congenital Malformations Diseases of Early Infancy Congenital debility Premature birth Old age Violent and Accidental Deaths .. Ill-defined Causes of Deaths Cause of death unstated or ill-defined— (а) Dropsy . . (б) Pyrexia . . In previous years Mandama deaths were included under Rickets in Item Deaths due to ‘ Rathe ” which used to be included under item XII Item XV. IX. X. XI. ♦XII. XIII. XIV. ♦XV. XVI. XVII. xvih. 131,061 23,410 1,150 66 2,153 2,217 3,174 347 10 1 6,752 13 1,461 803 765 9,595 2,420 452 5,936 2,690 7 15,383 11,827 3,126 13,275 1,687 2,101 2059 3,959 10,173 1,645 6,449 1,956 3,321 272 901 1,543 1,471 54 123 17,342 5,317 3,647 8,151 3,461 16,720 2,369 13,207 are III. now included