Report of the Medical Officer of Health on the public health and sanitary circumstances of the city and borough of Pietermaritzburg.

  • Pietermaritzburg (South Africa). Public Health Department.
Date:
[1938]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Report of the Medical Officer of Health on the public health and sanitary circumstances of the city and borough of Pietermaritzburg. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    -4- 1937-1938 TOTAL NOTIFICATIONS OF IHFDCTTOTK ntfiRAfiTr.. EUROPEAN NATIVE COLOURED INDIAN ALL NON- ALL EUROPEAN RACES ENTERIC FEVER.. ENTERIC FEVER 0 0 5 3 - 2 5 10 (Imported)..„ PULMONARY 0 0 - 2 - - 2 2 TUBERCULOSIS TUBERCULOSIS 0 • 17 40 15 % 14 69 86 (OTHga FORMSi. O 0 5 10 3 6 19 24 SCARLET FEVER . 0 0 12 - i* — - 12 DIPHTHERIA .. . . .25 2 2 4 29 2 TYPHUS FEVER . . > 0 o 2 mm Cj TRACHOMA ...... GONOCOCCAL i A O • — — 1 1 1 OPHTHALMIA.., OPHTHALMIA > o ♦ mm 3 1 — 4 4 NEONATORUM... 1 A • - 3 1 - 4 4 ERYSIPELAS .... » o o 2 - - 1 1 3 IEPRQSY CEREHRO SPINAL *• bm 1 *■ 1 1 MENINGITIS. .. MALARIA ........ 1 1 2 — 1 3 4 MALARIA (Import* *d) . 4 mm - - - ■it 4 PUERPERAL SEPSIS. . 1 1 - - 1 L 1 1 . 2 (INCIDENCE per 1.000 POPUIATION) EUROPEAN NATIVE COLOURED INDIAN ALL NON- EUROPEAN ALL RACES. ENTERIC FEVER (Excluding Imported Cases.) 0.23 0.27 0.25 0.21 0.23 PULMONARY TURKS- -CULOSIS. 0.79 3.56 6.98 1.76 3.24 2.01 T.B. OTHER FORMS. 0.23 0.89 1.40 0.76 0.89 0.86 SCARLET FEVER. 0.56 — — -- — 0.28 DIPHTHERIA 1.16 0.18 — 0.25 0.19 0.68 TYPHUS FEVER. 0.09 — — -- -- 0.05