M. FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE. COLONIAL MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| —— | Proportion of Deaths from each Cause to 100 Admissions from each Cause. | Proportion of Admissions from each Cause to 100 Admissions from all Causes. | Proportion of Deaths from each Cause to 100 Deaths from all Causes. | |||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |
| All causes | 20·3 | 18·6 | 100·0 | 100·0 | 100·0 | 100·0 |
| Variola | 26·2 | 7·0 | 15·6 | 19·4 | 20·4 | 6·8 |
| Dysenteria | 16·7 | 83·3 | 2·9 | 8·0 | 2·4 | 34·0 |
| Diarrhœa | 25·0 | — | ·9 | ·5 | 1·0 | — |
| Cholera biliosa or Cholera spasmodica | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Periodic fevers | 14·8 | — | 26·2 | — | 19·0 | — |
| Continued fevers | 16·7 | — | ·4 | ·2 | ·3 | — |
| Rheumatismus acutus or Rheumatismus chronicus | 5·6 | 28·6 | 2·9 | 1·6 | ·8 | 2·3 |
| Scrofula or Phthisis or Hæmoptysis | 19·7 | 10·0 | 3·3 | 3·8 | 3·2 | 2·3 |
| Brain and nervous system | 40·0 | 42·2 | 5·7 | 9·2 | 12·7 | 21·6 |
| Chest diseases | 18·0 | — | 2·1 | 1·1 | 2·4 | — |
| Liver diseases | — | — | ·1 | — | — | — |
| Other diseases | 19·3 | 11·6 | 39·9 | 56·2 | 37·8 | 33·0 |
NOTE.—The deaths + recoveries have been taken as the admissions in making these calculations. | ||||||