Administration Report of the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services for 1928 Ceylon

SIR -.1 HAVE the honour to submit for the information of His Excellency the Governor and for transmission to the Right Honourable the Secretary of State the medical report on the health and sanitary conditions of Ceylon for the year ending December 31 1928 together with the returns &c. [...] It will be evident from the analysis of cases treated given on page 11 that the site of the disease in the majority of cases was in the region of the buccal cavity the commonest site being the cheek. [...] There were several virulent epidemics during the year-1 in the Western Provnce in the lower part of the Kelani Valley during the early part of the year; 2 in the Central Province in the Matale District in July and in the Dumbara Valley during the last quarter of the year; throughout the North-Western Province in the early part of the year; in the Province of Uva at Badulla and in the villages ar [...] Cases 17 305.. 56.. 11.. 5 Deaths.. 14 186.. 47.. 6*.. 4* Total number of deaths rgistered for the Island 20 189.. 54.. 3*.. 3* Of the 5 cases 1 occurred in the Colombo town 1 in an estate in the Western Province I in an estate in the Central Province and 2 at Alutnuwara in the Province of Uva where an epidemic of cholera broke out on December 29 1928. [...] A large number of cases are also treated in the Tuberculosis Wards of the General Hospital Colombo.' The report of the Secretary of the King Edward VII.