Table 7.
Nigeria: cases and vaccinations by region, 1947–51
| Year | Northern (population 16.8m) | Eastern (population 7.4m) | Western (population 5.4m) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cases | Deaths | Cases | Deaths | Cases | Deaths | |
| 1947 | 4,370 | 860 | 563 | 23 | 492 | 71 |
| 1948 | 3,519 | 516 | 1,868 | 287 | 357 | 27 |
| 1949 | 5,542 | 771 | 6,251 | 981 | 3,070 | 494 |
| 1950 | 10,036 | 1,928 | 7,254 | 953 | 3,650 | 493 |
| 1951 | 8,101 | 1,632 | 2,498 | 432 | 1,280 | 212 |
| 1951 vaccinations | 1,552,986 | 784,554 | 898,443 | |||
Source: Nigeria, Annual report on the medical services for the year 1951, Lagos, Government Press, 1951, pp. 16–18.