. Rural sanitation in the tropics : being notes and observations in the Malay Archipelago, Panama and other lands. Fig. 55.—British Guiana: Showing the Coolil Vakd ofPlantation Fig. 56. —British CtUiana : The Coolie Yard ok Plam ^ : : i ;< n, TAKEN FROM THE HOSPITAL. In the foreground is the navig-ation trench, with floating vegetation blown to the left. In the centre is drinking-water trench. Face pagi 2t)0. SPLEEN CENSUS 291 in the fact that the death-rate for igii-12 was iriper 1000. In the Sury^eon-Generals Report I find the follow-ing spleen census:— Port Albion^ 1911. January
. Rural sanitation in the tropics : being notes and observations in the Malay Archipelago, Panama and other lands. Fig. 55.—British Guiana: Showing the Coolil Vakd ofPlantation Fig. 56. —British CtUiana : The Coolie Yard ok Plam ^ : : i ;< n, TAKEN FROM THE HOSPITAL. In the foreground is the navig-ation trench, with floating vegetation blown to the left. In the centre is drinking-water trench. Face pagi 2t)0. SPLEEN CENSUS 291 in the fact that the death-rate for igii-12 was iriper 1000. In the Sury^eon-Generals Report I find the follow-ing spleen census:— Port Albion^ 1911. January. July. Normal .... ... Enhiiged to edge of rib? .... Enlarged from edge of ribs to umliilicus .Enlarged beyond umbilicus 325I 281 40 These figures give spleen rates per cent, of 142and 12-4. If we make the correction I suggest, theybecome less than i per cent, in January and zero inJuly. Visiting the plantation school, I examined 113children. One only had enlarged spleen, and theenlargement was very slight. On the way back we stopped at a school about amile out of New Amsterdam. The pupils had left,but 19 were called back and examined ; not one hadenlarged spleen. In all I
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