Maternal Mortality.
36. For the first time the Colony's recorded maternal mortality rate was less than I per thousand live and still births. The actual rate was 0.97 which represents a drop of 0.17 from the previous year,
37. In the following Table are set forth live and still births, maternal deaths and maternal mortality rates per thousand live and still birtha during the years 1951, 1952 and 1953.
TABLE 2
Year
Ilve Births
Still Birthe
Total Live and Stil Ekirt be
| Pregnancy and
Child bearing
Abortion
Mortality Rate
No.of Theakh
Rate
pre
Kate No. of
THET 1.1 Deaths 1,000 Bitbu
Birby
Rate
No. of per Dewika|| 1000 Bitiu
1951.
£8,500
1.180 | 69,680
109
1952
1933
*
71,976 1,157 T3,133 பே
75.544 1,158 76,702 74 0.96
1.56
1.09
0.03 111 1.59
0.05
1.14
1 0.01
75 0.97
Principal Causes of Death.
39. The principal causes of death during the year and in the previous year are shown in the following Table:
Causes of death
Mulignant xemplaamı................ Gertso-enteritis and coliti
TABLE 4
Number of Destbe
1952
1953
807
931
2,940
3,649
Poeumonde (all focode)
4,249
2,69%
Premature hirtba
ON
B76
Tuberculosis of respiratory system.
ILIMANN
2,401
1,974
1,112
506
Tabarcodonia (other forums) PREPARADOGODEK
40. Further statistics relating to infectious diseases are set out in Appendices 3 and 4.
38. The following Table shows deaths from toxaemias of pregnancy during the year under review and the two previous years :-
Total Births (Toxaemine of (odeling
Deb Fate
tad
TABLE 3
¦ Dentin from
Year
Pregnancy
will-birthe)
thenwund
1951
14.
69,680
0.5
1953
31
73,133
0.3
1953
25
76,702
0.3
M4
UI. PUBLIC HEALTH
Hygiene and Sanitation.
41. The conditions of overcrowding in the Colony are well-known and have been referred to frequently in the past. The insanitary environmental circumstances resulting from overcrowding and the unhygienic conditions existing in the squatter areas continued to present public health staff with problemas which were almost insoluble. This state of affairs was reflected in the pattern of disease incidence and, as stated elsewhere in this report, it is not surprising that enteric fever and the dysenteries were very common. The sanitary inspectors in the Urban areas, under the direction of the Urban Council, Lackled these problems with vigour and achieved as much as was humanly possible. Much attention was paid to the supervision of the manufacture, preparation and sale of food, not only in established premises but in the many illicit restaurants and food shops operating in the squatter areas.
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