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2. The insufficient quant.i.ty and frequently even bad quality of articles of food distributed among them. Often the food given to the children is in every respect inadequate to their wants.
3. The great fall in temperature during the night.
4. The insufficient protection against cold experienced in the tents by the healthy population, and all the more by the invalids.
5. The absence of clothing and blankets.
6. The insufficient providing for invalids and the inadequate state of medical stores.
7. The want of employees for the sanitary service in the Camps.
In view of the importance of the problem put before the Committee, they have drawn up the above report and have sent copies of same to all the members of the Consular Corps.
(Signed) S.S. PITNER.
P. CINATTI.
BN. OSTMANN.
TABLE A
DIRECT CAUSES OF THE DEATHS IN THE CAMPS OF THE IMPRISONED BOERS, COMPOSED ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER ARTICLES TILL JULY 10TH, 1901.
Diseases. Number of Deaths.
Measles 123 Inflammation of the lungs 50 Dysentery 45 Inflammation of the bowels 35 Consumption 33 Diarrhoea 29 Bronchitis 27 Old age 21 Inflammation of the stomach 15 Malaria 18 Cramps 15 Measles and bronchitis 14 Typhoid fever 14 Weakness (Debility) 13 Heart disease 12 Croup 11 Old age 11 Cramps and inflammation of the stomach 10 Measles and weakness 11 Lying-in fever and child-birth illness 5 Measles and inflammation of the lungs 4 Inflammation of the brain 4 Diphtheria 4 Consumption and measles 4 Disease of the kidneys 6 Measles and diarrhoea 3 Measles and dysentery 3 Exhaustion 3 Inflammation of the bowels 3 Debility 2 Heart disease 4 Inflammation of the kidneys and debility, diseases through teething, asthma, influenza 6 Various 26 Not cla.s.sified 57 --- 641
_Summary and Percentage_
Cases. Percentage.
Simple and complicated measles 149 23 Diseases of the respiratory organs 106 17 Diseases of the bowels 105 17 Fever 67 10 Debility, old age, consumption 75 12 Convulsions 15 2 Debility through old age 13 2 Heart disease 12 2 Not cla.s.sified 57 9 Various 42 6 --- 641 cases.
TABLE B
DEATH-RATE OF THE IMPRISONED BOERS IN THE CAMPS OF THE TRANSVAAL ACCORDING TO OFFICIAL REPORTS AND TRUSTWORTHY INFORMATION.
------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | | Camps and Months. | Number of prisoners + | under 8 years. | | | +-----------+-----------+-----------+ | | | | | Male. | Female. | Total. | ------------------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+ Middelburg April | 666 | 626 | 1,292 | Potchefstroom April | 1,577 | 4,147 | 5,724 | May 1-17th | 1,605[B] | 4,207[B] | 5,812[C] | Standerton April | 584 | 553 | 1,137 | Volksrust April | 1,911 | 1,667 | 3,578 | Irene April | 2,134 | 1,589| 3,703 | ” May | 2,364[B] | 1,738[B] | 4,102[C] | ” June | 2,593[B] | 2,007[B] | 4,600[C] | Johannesburg April | 1,705 | 1,465 | 3,170 | May 1-27th | 1,770[B] | 1,515[B] | 3,285[C] | All Camps in | | | | Transvaal April | 11,098 | 12,714 | 23,612 | ------------------------+-----------+-----------+-----------+
------------------------+-----------------------------------------------+ | Death Rate for the Period Indicated. | Camps and Months +------------------------+----------------------+ | Under 8 years. | Per 1,000 per ann. | | | Under 8 years. | +-------+--------+-------+------+--------+------+ | Male. | Female.| Total.| Male.| Female.| pr. | | | | | | | 1000 | ------------------------+-------+--------+-------+------+--------+------+ Middelburg April | 5 | 4 | 9 | 86 | 77 | 83 | Potchefstroom April | 7[A] | 17[A] | 24 | 53 | 39 | 54 | May 1-17th | 8 | 17 | 25 | 106 | 86 | 94 | Standerton April | 5[D] | 20[D] | 25 | 104 | 372 | 255 | Volkstust April | 5 | 21 | 26 | 32 | 153 | 87 | Irene April | 14[A] | 35[A] | 49 | 79 | 270 | 161 | ” May | 19 | 49 | 68 | 58 | 331 | 200 | ” June | 38[A] | 97[C] |135[E] | 177 | 588 | 366 | Johannesburg April | 9 | 82 | 91 | 62 | 681 | 349 | May 1-27th | 12 | 67 | 79 | 94 | 598 | 325 | All Camps in | | | | | | | Transvaal April | 69 | 171 |240 | 75 | 161 | 122 | ------------------------+-------+--------+-------+------+--------+------+
A: According to the proportion for the month of May.
B: According to the proportion for the month of April.
C: Average number from April till July 9th.
D: According to the proportion for Volksrust.
E: Statement by a nurse in service at Irene.
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