Annual report on the Medical Department / Straits Settlements.

  • Straits Settlements. Medical Department.
Date:
[1934]
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Credit: Annual report on the Medical Department / Straits Settlements. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TABLE III Return of Diseases and Deaths for the Year 1934—continued. Diseases Remaining at end of 1933 Yearly Total Total Cases Remaining at end of 1934 Remarks Admissions Deaths Treated Brought forward ... VI.—Diseases of the Nervous System 2,236 19,989 2,561 22,225 2,417 and Sense Organs 78. Encephalitis (not including encephalitis lethargica) : — : (1) Cerebral abscess 0 2 2 2 0 (2) Other forms of encepha- litis 3 12 3 15 3 79. Meningitis (not including tuber- culous meningitis or cerebro- / spinal meningitis) 80. Tabes dorsalis (locomotor 2 37 23 39 1 ataxia) » ... 19 16 4 35 11 81. Other diseases of the spinal cord 7 30 4 37 1.5 82. Apoplexy and paralysis : — (1) Cerebral haemorrhage ... 0 65 50 65 3 (2) Cerebral embolism 0 2 0 2 1 (3) Cerebral thrombosis (4) Hsemiplegia, cause not 2 43 11 45 3 determined 62 104 14 166 39 •> (5) Other paralysis 22 64 1 86 24 83. General paralysis of the insane 84. Other forms of insanity : — 31 32 23 63 30 i ® (1) Depientia praecox 1 1 0 2 0 (2) Others 7 360 14 367 3 85. Epilepsy ... 9 107 2 Il6 13 86. Infantile convulsions (age under 5 years) 87. Other diseases of the nevous. 0 52 35 52 0 system : — (1) Chorea 0 2 0 2 0 (2) Neuritis and neuralgia ... 53 390 1 443 43 (3) Paralysis agitans 4 4 —I 8 4 (4) Disseminated sclerosis ... 1 4 0 5 1 (5) Neurasthenia 0 5i 0 5i 2 (6) Hysteria 0 18 0 18 0 (7) Others 88. Diseases of. the eye : — 5 65 12 70 3 (1) Conjunctivitis .. 14 324 0 33S S (2) Trachoma ... ■ 8 94 O 102 . 7 (3) Corneal ulcer 24 176 0 200 19 (4) Other diseases of the eye 202 445 I 647 163 89. Diseases of the ear and or the mastoid sinus : — (1) Otitis externa 2 85 0 87 0 (2) Otitis media 0 87 I 87 2 (3) Mastoiditis ... 2 28 3 30 j 1 (4) Others VII.—Diseases of the Circulatory . 0 19 0 19 , 4 System 90. Pericarditis 2 14 4 16 1 91. Acute endocarditis : — (1) Malignant ... 1 11 6 12 j 0 (2) Others .... 1 24 17 25 1 • ' 1 i J