Skin Diseases in South Africa

Abstract

The main factors that influence the incidence of skin diseases in-South Africa, as in Africa as a whole, are race, climate, nutrition, migration, way of life and occupation, and medication or lack of it. RaceThe chief racial groups l,Q in South Africa are the Bantu ( 11,000,000) wlio •are Hamiticized Negroes, the whites (3,000,000) who are mainly of Dutch, British, German, and French descent, the Indians ( 500,000), and the colored people ( 1,500,000) who are of mixed stock. . The remnants of the Bushmen and Hottentots live in South-West Africa.