Report of the Sudan Medical Service.

  • Sudan. Medical Service.
Date:
[1945]
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Credit: Report of the Sudan Medical Service. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Relapsing Fever. Incidence in the Last Ten Years. Year. Cases. Deaths. Year. Cases. Deaths 1936 . 22 — 1941 . ... 3,028 110 1937 . 374 48 1942 . ... 5,287 559 1938 . 1,124 116 1943 . ... 10,5' 5 668 1939 . 1,006 92 1944 ... 22,672 310 1940 . 1,487 45 1945 . ... 17,392 444 The distribution by Provinces was : — Province. Cases. Deaths. Province. Cases. Deaths Blue Kile .... 4,698 37 Khartoum 681 17 Darfur • « ■ • 1,068 160 Kordofan .... .... 1,683 15 Equatoria .... ,,,, — — Northern .... 9 — Kassala .... 1,779 58 Upper Nile .... 7,474 157 Total .... 17,392 444 4. SMALLPOX. No cases were reported in the Sudan during 1945 although three were removed from a ship at Port Sudan and treated in the local quarantine. Smallpox was, however, present during the year in Egypt, East Africa, the Belgian Congo and French Equatorial Africa—countries that are neighbours. The vaccination state in the Sudan can fortunately be considered satisfactory. The lymph used is that made by the Stack Medical Research Laboratories. No fewer than six million vaccinations have been carried out during the last eight years and 525,847 were performed during 1945. Table 6. Smallpox Incidence in Last Te?i Years. Year., 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1 941 1 942 1943 1944 *1945 Cases. Death: 501 132 425 57 527 158 553 103 515 104 46 — 12 — 182 36 242 51 *Three cases were emoved from a ship and quarantined in Port Sudan. CHAPTER IV. ENDEMIC DISEASE. 1. ANCYLOSTOMIASIS. There was no significant change in the incidence of this disease. It was present in Equatoria, and, to a much less extent, in a few parts of the Northern Province. 2. BLACK WATER FEVER. Cases during the last six years have been : — Year. Cases Deaths Year Cases Deaths 1940 ... 24 9 1943 ... 17 3 1941 ... 28 9 1944 ... 1 1 4 1942 ... 2 9 11 1945 ... 14 2