SOME URINARY TRACT DISEASE IN AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL INPATIENTS IN 1980

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Abstract
Four hundred and ninety‐three patients were admitted to the Royal Darwin Hospital in 1980 with urinary tract disease. Aboriginals had an increased incidence (p < 0.005) of urinary tract infection and glomerulonephritis (p < 0.001) compared with non Aboriginals. Aboriginals with post‐streptococcal glomerulonephritis tended to grow Group A Beta hemolytic streptococci from their skins, non Aboriginals tended to grow it from their throats. Aboriginals had a lower incidence of urolithiasis (p<O.OOl). There was no difference in the incidence of benign prostatic hypertrophy between the two populations.

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