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Sanitary Statistics of Native Colonial Schools and Hospitals

Chapter 26: T. MAURITIUS. CIVIL HOSPITAL, PORT LOUIS.
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The author compiles and analyzes returns from numerous colonial schools and training institutions to document attendance, age distribution, and mortality patterns. Results show higher death rates than those of comparable children at home, with infectious childhood epidemics dominating in some regions while tubercular disease is prominent in particular institutions. The analysis connects elevated mortality to poor building construction, inadequate ventilation, unsanitary surroundings, long instructional periods, and scarce play or physical education. It also highlights inconsistent, incomplete record-keeping and concludes that the available statistical material is insufficient to yield fully reliable practical guidance.

T. MAURITIUS. CIVIL HOSPITAL, PORT LOUIS.

Of the Admissions into Hospital, the Proportion per Cent. who died and who recovered, during the Six Years, 1855–60.

Table T., Part 1
—— All Ages. Under 5 Years. 5 and under 15 Years.
Died in Hospital. Recovered. Died in Hospital. Recovered. Died in Hospital. Recovered.
M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F.
All diseases 21·3 38·8 78·7 61·2 42·5 36·4 57·5 63·6 26·2 27·7 73·8 72·3
Variola 100·0 100·0
Influenza 31·4 20·0 68·6 80·0 100·0 33·3 66·7 100·0
Ophthalmia 5·3 16·7 94·7 83·3 100·0 100·0
Dysenteria 40·7 75·0 59·3 25·0 71·4 100·0 28·6 44·4 55·6 100·0
Diarrhœa 37·7 61·7 62·3 38·3 53·8 40·0 46·2 60·0 52·2 50·0 47·8 50·0
Cholera biliosa or Cholera spas­mo­di­ca 62·0 63·6 38·0 36·4 100·0 61·6 33·3 38·4 66·7
Periodic fevers 25·0 25·0
Continued fevers 14·6 27·8 85·4 72·2 100·0 7·9 92·1 100·0
Rheu­ma­tis­mus acutus or Rheu­ma­tis­mus chronicus 11·9 33·3 88·1 66·7 100·0
Syphilitic diseases 4·3 16·7 95·7 83·3 100·0 100·0
Anasarca 59·5 60·6 40·5 39·4 50·0 50·0 100·0 21·4 50·0 78·6 50·0
Scrofula or Phthisis or Hæ­mop­ty­sis 57·1 72·7 42·9 27·3 40·0 60·0
Brain and nervous system 36·9 26·7 63·1 73·3 71·4 28·6
Chest diseases 29·2 50·0 70·8 50·0 100·0
Fractura 24·0 13·6 76·0 86·4 100·0 27·3 72·7 100·0
Liver diseases 31·6 68·4 100·0
Table T., Part 2
—— 15 and under 40 Years. 40 and upwards.
Died in Hospital. Recovered. Died in Hospital. Recovered.
M. F. M. F. M. F. M. F.
All diseases 18·4 36·3 81·6 63·7 38·7 61·9 61·3 38·1
Variola 100·0 100.0
Influenza 25·7 50·0 74·3 50·0 46·4 53·6 100·0
Ophthalmia 5·4 94·6 100·0 5·6 94·4
Dysenteria 36·3 71·4 63·7 28·6 56·6 100·0 43·4
Diarrhœa 34·2 64·6 65·8 35·4 55·8 57·1 44·2 42·9
Cholera biliosa or Cholera spas­mo­di­ca 57·3 64·7 42·7 35·3 84·0 100·0 16·0
Periodic fevers 27·3 72·7 100·0
Continued fevers 13·1 29·0 86·9 71·0 32·1 50·0 67·9 50·0
Rheu­ma­tis­mus acutus or Rheu­ma­tis­mus chronicus 9·8 29·2 90·2 70·8 24·5 50·0 75·5 50·0
Syphilitic diseases 3·7 17·5 96·3 82·5 12·1 87·9
Anasarca 59·2 60·9 40·8 39·1 67·1 100·0 32·9
Scrofula or Phthisis or Hæ­mop­ty­sis 54·5 66·7 45·5 33·3 71·0 100·0 29·0
Brain and nervous system 31·2 10·0 68·8 90·0 47·9 60·0 52·1 40·0
Chest diseases 24·7 50·0 75·3 50·0 45·0 50·0 55·0 50·0
Fractura 22·5 33·3 77·5 66·7 30·2 69·8 100·0
Liver diseases 27·7 72·3 100·0 50·0 50·0

NOTE.—In some instances the number of admissions were exceeded by the deaths + the recoveries; in calculating the per-centages the aggregate of the deaths and recoveries (D. + R.) were in these instances regarded as the number of admissions.