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Communicable diseases—The figures of male (61), female (72) largely represent forms
of tuberculosis. They are very much swollen as all cases shown by chest X-ray to have old
lesions are included in this category. This was done purposely to enable a follow up to be
done if necessary. There were also a number of cases of infective hepatitis and infectious
mononucleosis.
Tuberculosis
Patients Not Age groups
Work- work- 0/4 5/15 16/19 20/29 30/39 40/49 50/59 60/69 70+
Male Female ing ing
40 43 54 29 — 4 4 6 20 11 20 14 4
Of these, it is estimated that new cases discovered totalled 11 and 72 patients who came
for other investigations revealed evidence of old disease.
Delivery and complications of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium—The large
proportion of these were patients (130) in the ante-natal stage who came for various
prophylactic procedures. A few were anaemias following severe haemorrhage in labour.
Diseases of skin and cellular diseases—A high proportion of cases which came for
dressings and minor operative procedures came into this category, e.g., boils, carbuncles,
various forms of cellulitis and infectious warts.
Prophylactic procedures—Use was made of the Centre for carrying out examinations for
administrative purposes (17) and for prophylaxis (68).
Diseases of the digestive system—There were comparatively very few of these as no
barium investigations are done. Fifteen of the cases were conditions of the mouth.
Neoplasms—The majority (28) were benign, but several cases of malignant neoplasms
were detected; others were old cases sent for check up.
Congenital malformations—An appreciable number (28) of congenital malformations
were found during X-ray investigations of other conditions. The majority were not of any
significant importance.
Diseases of nervous system and sense organs—These were mainly associated with diseases
of the ears: acute and chronic otitis, and cerumen.
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