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No. 125.
NYASALAND.
RETURN OF MALARIAL FEVER, BLACKWATER FEVER, YELLOW FEVER, FILARIASIS, AND DENGUE FROM 18T JANUARY TO 318T DECEMBER, 1914.
(Received in Colonial Office, 18th August, 1915.)
1. Name of Colony
2. Total area
8. Estimated population:
(a) Total
(t) Europeans
(c) Asiatics
(d) Africans
4. Births during the year
(a) Europeans
(b) Asiatics
(c) Africans
5. Deaths during the year :—
(a) Europeans
(b) Asiatics
Africans
Deaths ascribed to fever
Deaths ascribed to blackwater fever Deaths ascribed to yellow fever
Government hospitals
(a) Number of such hospitals.
(b) Totals during the year:-
Admissions
Deaths
(c) Malarial fever :--
Admissions
Deaths
(d) Blackwater fever :-
Admissions
Deaths
(e) Yellow fever :-
Admissions
Deaths
(f) Filarial diseases:
Admissions
Deaths
(g) Dengue:
Admissions Deaths
7. Government dispensaries:
10. Estates employing indentured labour 11. Estimated revenue of Colony, 1914-15:-
A Total during year
12.
Estimated expenditure of Colony, 1914-15 :-
(a) Total during year...
Annual medical and sanitary expenditure Upkeep of Government hospitals and dis- pensaries
(d) Total salaries and allowances of Medical
Officers
(6) Total annual sanitary expenditure
Prisoners are largely employed for petty No major anti-mosquito measures.
works.
13. Towns under Municipalities or Town Councils :—
(a) Number of such
(b) Total population
Total revenues
(d) Total medical and sanitary expendi-
ture
14. Tables of deaths by districts
Nil
£139,968
£150,364 £10,983
£202
£5,788
No record.
4
1,320
about £500
No separate record.
15. Table of deaths in the principal towns:-
Nyasaland.
39,315 square miles.
1,089,298
831
410
1,088,057
32
3
No record.
12
2
No record.
1
1
Nil
8
Port Herald...
Blantyre
...
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Lower Shire Blantyre Zomba
122
625
648 31
...
454 119
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Population
Town.
District.
of Town.
Zomba
Fort Johnston South Nyasa
Total
February
March.
111
January.
11-1
April.
11-1
111
Not available.
Total Deaths.
111-
Tall
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Beptember.
October.
November.
| | |
December.
Total.
11
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724
1
1
1 1 5 1
1
8
1
2
6
8
80
410
16. Rainfall during the year 1914:—
39
1
3
1
Nil
Nil
Where Observed.
District
Nil
Nil
Nil
Nil
22 22 22 °°88°2 EF
January.
Rainfall.
Government Farm... Lower Shire Chiromo
Ruo West Shire Chikwawa
Neno
Blantyre
Mlanje Zomba
Blantyre
Mlanje ... Zomba... Upper Bhire
8.62 2.99 8-86 5-120-920-201-40 11-22 6-18 9-22 8-240-420-490-880-18 5.50 9-817-27 2-200-470-851-150-87 8-1514-76 5:41 6-710-800-88′0·680-44 10-12 7-5513-58 2-260-820-81,0-450-22 11-8517-11 28-9111-008-087-049-815-00
10-449-997-4211-820-252-450-445-25
2-29 9-05 2-91| 5-07 7-8719-58 1-19, 5-11 7-824-62 9-44 4.18
1-76 0.97 30.85
0-05 3-683-57 88-88 0-11 2-69 2·82 82-24 -10-15 8-888-87 44.91 0-662-81 9.89 48-17 20810-7617-00128-84 0-587-75 7-40) 68-24 0-614-89 4.88 29.55 (1-20 2·45 4·54| 85.27 0-20 1.62 4.96 82.36 5-04 85-00 3-89 6-02 54-14
(a) Number of such dispensaries
(b) Total attendances during year
10,080
(c) Attendances for malaria
690
Liwonde
(d) Attendances for filarial diseases
Nehou
Fort Johnston
Nil
Chinteche...
South Nyasa West Nyasa
8. Medical service :-
12
Kawiys Karongs
North Nyasa
0-07 0.13 0.25
-0.02 9-30 9-5820-5218-780-328-721-870-490-270-11 6-28 6-6811-85 14-980-400-191-642-480-41 4.99 8-20 9-56 5-120-88 -1.56 ?
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?
?
Nil
11
(e) Attendances for dengue
(2) Number of Government Medical Officers
(b) Number of special Health Officers
(c) Number of other registered practitioners
9. Schools:-
(a) Number of schools...
(b) Number of scholars registered in these
schools
(c) Percentage of daily attendances
128,933
No record.
17. Additional information :-
(a) Is there any legislation in force against the breeding of mosquitoes
in premises-Yes.
Number of notices, convictions and warnings during the year.—
Notices, 52; convictions, 43; warnings, 19.
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