Report of the Director of Medical Services / British Guiana.

  • British Guiana. Medical Department.
Date:
[1939]
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Credit: Report of the Director of Medical Services / British Guiana. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Brought forward Lower Extremity: Hip Thigh Knee Leg Ankle Foot • • • 123 8 7 12 12 14 18 71 Chest Ribs Abdomen Back and Vertebrae Pelvis Kidney 21 5 5 8 7 3 ' Total 159. No cases were treated by X-Rays. 243 160. The revenue collected was $40.55 as against $66.07 for 1938. B.—The Mental Hospital. 161. The following information is derived from the annual report of the Medical Superintendent of the Mental Hospital. 162. The daily average number of patients was 611 (males 363, females 248) compared with 634 in 1938. There were 134 admissions (males 68, females 66) as against 99 in 1938, With the 628 patients (367 males, 261 females) remaining on January 1st a total of 762 cases was treated during the year. The admissions from the three counties were :— County. Males. Females. Total. Demerara 48 49 97 Berbioe ... ... 14 14 28 Essequebo ... 6 3 9 Total ... 68 66 134 163. The admissions classified as to the countries of origin were ;— Country. Males. Females. Total. British Guiana 60 63 123 India 3 2 5 Barbados 1 1 China i 1 Trinidad l 1 St. Lucia l 1 Grenada l 1 Surinam ... l ... 1 Total 68 66 134 164. There were 36 discharges (males 24, females 12) compared with 28 in 1938, and the total number of patients under treatment at the end of the year was 19 less than at the end of 1938. 165. The number of deaths was 115 (51 males and 64 females) compared with 150 in 1938, and the mortality rate was 15.09 per cent, as against 18.6 per cent, the previous year. 166. The principal causes of death were dysentery, myocarditis, chronic nephritis, lobar pneumonia, and pulmonary tuberculosis. 167. The chief diseases treated were malaria, pneumonia, pulmonary tubercu¬ losis and other lung diseases, filariasis, diarrhoea, dysentery, general debility, influenza, myocarditis, nephritis, anaemia, arthritis, and chickenpox.