Cerebo-epinal Meningitis
(Meningococcal)
Measles
60
ANNEXURE F.
Diphtheria
Enteric
Paver
Smallpox
Year
Notifications
Deaths
00 ad E
Notifications
NotificationS
Theaths
Deaths per 100 Notifications
Notifications
**A**O
Deaths per 100 NotiBcationE
Notifications
1928
21
16
1929
20
1930
20
13
1931
25
#1
2 8 3 2
90
76
2'T
30
240
140
64
46
207
95
231
64
==
41
43
221
67
26
214
Figures prior
205
81
1932
207
122
59
202
* 3 2 2 2
$3
61
74
Deaths
Deaths per 100 Notifications
Notifications
Deathe
Deaths per 100
Notifications
79
70
122
1933
191
113
29
SL
66
207
Le 1940 not
1934
246
125
61
.182
83
212
220
1035
110
54
49
136
60
319
available.
375
1906
123
ரச
59
214
118
138
303
1937
167
B*
66
148
464
176
319
1938
488
46
147
4G
599
3 3 8 E
187
* * * = = = 3 #
31
418
304
49
977
864
*7
36
270
249
92
33
16
8
ba
41
212
175
AS
31
568
490
97
31
133
104
68
30
01
44
+2
39
23
18
70
$5
139
94
73
15
2,397
1,839
19
Nades
1939
488
214
44
142
N.A.
N.A.
355
NHA
199
153
77
1940
N.A.
N.A.
NA.
N.A.
130
N.A.
N.A.
324
N.A.
1946
293
85
24
317
26
B
161
197
666
137
2+
160
B
122
$2
1948
69
19
28
190
#
3
140
449
1940
36
44
468
10
261
2 2 2 2
35
221
115
43
246
*
* >
$35
270
81
52
1,098
1,306
65
214
128
60
35
311
GB
22
26
13
29
408
50
12
11
46
N.A.=Figures not available.
NOTE--Figures for war years 1911 to 1045 are not available.
61
ANNEXURE G.
Tuberculosis—1949.
In the absence of accurate population figures it in mot possible to present reliable mortality or morbidity rates in respect of tuberculosis. Its relative importance as a kilting disease has however increased, accounting as it has for 18% of all deaths recorded as against 14.6% in 1948. In considering local conditions it is not at all surprising that some increase has taken place. Housing conditions, which have not at any time been good, have further deteriorated as a result of increased overcrowding brought on by the arrival of large numbers of refugees in the Colony. At the same time the Urban Council have been conducting an active campaign against squat- ters in the Urban areas who have been obliged to leave their Üllegal huts and seeks accommodation elsewhere, some to erect huts in less accessible sites, others to crowd into the already overcrowded tenements. The degree of this overcrowding is almost impossible to imagine. One case of pulmonary tuber- culosis was recently found to be living on a floor, legally capable of housing 10-12 persons, but occupied by 23 families. Under such conditions, and with numernus cases of open tuberculosis at large among the population, it is not surprising that there has been an increase in the total number of individuals who were notified as suffering from, or who have died from, this disease. These increases have been much more apparent in the acute forms of the disease such as miliary disease and tuber- cular meningitis.
Attempts have been made to limit the spread of this disease by propaganda, by loud speaker vans, by public notices, by pamphlets, by cinemas and by instruction of the patient in the clinic, in hospital and in his own home, but little real improve- ment can be anticipated until there is a fall in density of the population, some control over the open cases is obtained, or there is a diminution in the number of susceptibles. An under. standing of the local conditions is necessary before the difficulty of instituting any such measures can be appreciated. As an immediate measure the possibility of a B. C. G. vaccination campaign is under examination,