RE F.
Hphtheria
Enteric
Fever
Smallpox
* * * 2 N
27
Deaths
Deaths per 100 Notifications
Notifications
BUTRIY
Deaths per 100 Notifications
Notifications
Deaths
Deaths per 100
Notifications
30
240
64
46
207
11
43
221
57
35
214
B1
40
202
81
66
207
23
51
212
136
60
319
23 22 3 7 3 2
74
31
616
304
40
61
70
3 3
32
977
854
87
36
270
240
02
1 à
$
ba
41
219
175
H2
64
31
566
433
31
153
104
68
30
01
44
72
214
$7
418
136
33
22
10
70
148
OF
484
176
$8
129
94
79
147
40
539
187
85
2,327
1,833
79
142
N.A.
NA.
765
N.A.
198
153
**
130
N.A.
NA.
324
N.A.
335
270
81
62
3 5 3 3
39
221
115
52
43
246
61
49
35
311
69
76
20
408
89
3 3 2 2
52
1,008
1,308
05
214
129
40
B
DJ
25
11
46
61
ANNEXURE G,
Taberculosis--1949.
In the absence of accurate population figures it is not possible to present reliable mortality or morbidity rates in respect of taberculosis. Its relative importance as a killing disease has however increased, accounting as it has for 16% In considering
of all deaths recorded as against 14.6% in 1948. local conditions it is not at all surprising that soune 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 illegal huts and seeks accommodation elsewhere, some to erect buts 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 numerous 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 elinic, in hospital and in his own home, but little real improve- meat 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,