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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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