A prevalence study was done on a sample of 169 pre-school children in a rural area in Kigezi, about 3½ miles from Kabale. The objective was to find whether there was an association between malnutrition and intestinal worm ...

Tuberculosis has been known to physicians and laymen or centuries. It was mentioned by the posts in their writings. It is now known that tuberculosis is a world wide disease. A conservative estimate of the problem by the ...

Section I: literature is reviewed and the pattern of the development of immunity in a population exposed to high malarial endemicity is followed. This is followed by a brief discussion of specific aspects of malarial ...

Chronic pancreatic disease may be defined pathologically as a condition characterized by loss of pancreatic lobular architecture with replacement of most of the parenchyma by fibrous tissue. These features are accompanied ...

The history of syphilis in Uganda, the clinical patterns, and the cellular immune mechanisms among the indigenous subjects with syphilis have been studied. Concerning the history it was shown and discussed that the disease ...

Thirty patients with malaria were studied. Seven had cerebral malaria, ten severe and thirteen non-severe malaria. Age ranged from seven weeks to eight years with equal sex distribution. All were febrile except two infants ...

Birth injury is defined by Potter (1961) as any condition that affects the foetus adversely during labour or delivery. The definition in Nelson’s Textbook of Pediatrics is quite in agreement. These birth injuries are further ...

The necessary data for this study was extracted from the student case notes in the student sick bay of Makerere University, the Registrar’s Office of Makerere Main Hall building and from the individual halls of residence. ...

Some work has already been done on school health in Uganda. But with the quick pace in scientific research in this field, it’s necessary that field surveys be carried out to focus our attention on the most common problems ...

During a brief period of 4 weeks in October 1974, a study was conducted about factors associated with the high frequency of TETANUS in Busoga previously reported from analysis of Jinja Hospital records. 36 cases of tetanus ...