Colonial War Memorial Hospital Research Articles

TWO CASES OF PRIMARY BACTERIAL PERITONITIS PRESENTING WITH A TENDER HERNIA

This case report describes the cases of two children admitted to the colonial war memorial hospital with tender hernias, who were found to have primary bacterial peritonitis.

HLA and non-insulin dependent diabetes in Fiji indians: [formula omitted], John Curtin School of Med. Res., Canberra, Australia, Colonial War Memorial Hospital, Suva, Fiji and Dept. Metab. Med. and Epidemiol., Southern Memorial Hospital, Caulfield South, Melbourne, Australia

HLA and non-insulin dependent diabetes in Fiji indians: [formula omitted], John Curtin School of Med. Res., Canberra, Australia, Colonial War Memorial Hospital, Suva, Fiji and Dept. Metab. Med. and Epidemiol., Southern Memorial Hospital, Caulfield South, Melbourne, Australia

An investigation of rheumatic fever in Fiji

The criteria for the certain and probable diagnosis of rheumatic fever and its sequelae have been outlined. These criteria were applied to all cases possibly suffering from this disease which were admitted to the wards of the Colonial War Memorial Hospital, Suva, Fiji, during the year 1948. Rheumatic fever has been proved with certainty in both the Fijian race and among the Indians born and living in Fiji. Indian cases, proved absolutely, “clinically proved” and “doubtful, probable,” were 1·2 per cent. of total Indian admissions (2,067), Fijian cases 0·2 per cent. of total Fijian admissions (1,162), suggesting an incidence six times as great among the Indians of Fiji as in the indigenous Fijian race. In the age group 6 to 10, when, in Europe and America, the disease usually first attacks and has its highest incidence, only Indian cases came under observation, and these constituted 8 per cent. of the total Indian admissions (73) for these ages.