caa a22 4500 386389829 CHVBK 20180307112110.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198902 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0026749X00011410 doi S0026749X00011410 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0026749X00011410 Parmer J. Norman Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas Health and Health Services in British Malaya in the 1920s [Elektronische Daten] [J. Norman Parmer] British Malaya was a very unhealthy place in the early years of this century. Malaria, ankylostomiasis or hookworm, venereal disease, tuberculosis, dysentery, pneumonia, beri-beri, cholera and still other diseases accounted for thousands of deaths annually in the 1920s. Typically, persons suffered from two or more maladies at the same time. In the Federated Malay States (F. M. S.) probably more than half of those listed as dying from malaria also suffered from hookworm. Many pneumonia deaths were due to tuberculosis. Chronic malnutrition combined with malaria, hookworm and diarrhea in many, perhaps most, pregnant women to produce high infant and maternal mortality. The majority of the living were more or less continuously afflicted with disease. Most of the diseases were debilitating and slow to kill. Most were preventable although that was imperfectly understood. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Modern Asian Studies Cambridge University Press 23/1(1989-02), 49-71 0026-749X 23:1<49 1989 23 ASS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X00011410 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0026749X00011410 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Parmer J. Norman Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Modern Asian Studies Cambridge University Press 23/1(1989-02), 49-71 0026-749X 23:1<49 1989 23 ASS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge