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APPENDIX VI
HEALTH REPORTS
The following information is taken from Reports which provide the back- ground of Chapter 4, Part IV, Health.
1. INCIDENCE OF DISEASE
The following table shows the incidence of disease in the East Africa Territories of the Corporation as indicated by the hospital admission records:
Disease Incidence Hospital Admissions from beginning of Scheme to
March 31, 1949
Pneumonia
Malaria
Chickenpox
Mumps
Schistosomiasis
Disease
Dysentery Bacillary
Dysentery Amoebic
Relapsing Fever (tick borne)
Syphilis
Measles
Infective Hepatitis
Yaws (secondary and late)
Enteric Fever
Meningitis
Tuberculosis
Leprosy
Smallpox
Trachoma
Filariasis
Typhus (tick borne)
Encephalitis
•
Undulant Fever
Trypanosomiasis
...
Total number of cases admitted to hospital
Mortality rate (rate per 1,000)
1.365
1,260
23.6 1.9
677
672
360
414
...
21.7
292
257
47.4
211
205
171
14.6
81
53
92.0
46
300-0
32
375.0
27
...
19
166.5.
10.
10
8
660.0
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2. ADMISSION RATES AND TREATMENT IN HOSPITALS (a) Admission Rates per 1,000 (per 4-week Month)
1949
January
February
March
Eur. African Others Eur. African Others Eur. African Others
Kongwa Urambo
40.0 40.6 44.0 23.6 31.6
99.0 84.0 102.0
60.0 44.4
16-0 136.0
20.7 33-8 48.0 54.0 45.2 172.0
Nachingwea
134.0 26.8
104.0 23.5
Mkwaya
67.8
43.8
70.2 39.5
Ifunda
9.1
53.0
3.0 49.8
100.0 13.3
33.5 43.5 20.0 30.0
Total Admissions
(actual figures) 126
1,149 17
95
846
12
89
838
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