Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health / Nairobi Municipality.

  • Nairobi (Kenya). Public Health Department.
Date:
[1945]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health / Nairobi Municipality. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTERNATIONAL NOMENCLATURE: EUROPEAN: INDIAN: AFRICAN TOTAL. & OTHERS: Group I: Infectious & Parasitic Diseases : 1. Typhoid Fever . 2 — 14 16 4. Relapsing Fever. — — 1 1 9. Whooping Cough .. — — 12 12 10. Diphtheria — 2 — 2 13. Dysentery . — 5 14 19 17. Encephalitis Lethargica . 1 2 5 8 18. Cerebrospinal Fever . — — 2 2 22. Tetanus . — 1 10 11 23. Tuberculosis (Lungs) . 1 13 40 54 24. Tuberculosis (other organs) ... — 1 8 9 27. Measles . — 1 6 7 34. Syphilis . . — 1 29 30 36. Septicaemia . — 2 17 19 38. Malaria .. 2 4 13 , 19 41. Hydatid Mole . — 1 1 42. Bilharzia ... ... ... — — 1 1 44. Mumps . 1 — — 1 TOTAL: 7 33 172 212 Group II: Cancer & Other Tumours: 45. Tongue ... .. — — 1 1 45. Tonsils . — — 1 1 46. Pancreas . — 1 1 2 Oesophagus ... . — 1 — 1 Stomach ... .. 1 — —• 1 Rectum . 1 1 — 2 Liver . 2 1 — 3 Retro-Peritoneal . — 1 — 1 48. Uterus . 3 1 — 4 50. Breast ... . — — 3 3 51. Prostate . 1 — — 1 53. Unspecified . — — 2 2 General ...” . — — 1 1 54. Uterine Fibroid . — — 3 3 66. Goitre . 1 — — 1 TOTAL: 9 6 12 27 Group III: Rheumatism, Diseases of Nutrition, etc. : 56. Rheumatic Fever . — — 1 1 59. Diabetes . 5 5 2 12 63. Rickets . — 2 — 2 TOTAL: 5 7 3 15 \ Group IV: Diseases of the Blood, etc. : 71. Anaemia . 1 3 3 7 72. Loukaemia . 2 — 2 4 Agranulocytosis . 1 — — 1 TOTAL: 4 3 5 12 4