Notifiable Diseases
SOCIAL SERVICES
The following table sets forth the more important causes of death from communicable diseases :
Cases
Case
Diseases
Chinese
Non- Chinese
Total Deaths fatality
rate
Smallpox
1
2
3
Typhus Fever
(Scrub)
0
6
6
Amoebiasis
125
76
201
7
3.5%
Dysentery
(Bacillary)
269
66
335
21
6.3%
(Clinical)
1
0
1
1
Enteric Fever
1,211
19
1,230
158
12.8%
Chickenpox
123
53
176
2.3%
C.S.M.
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(Meningococcal) ..
12
0
12
5
41.7%
Diphtheria
979
00
8
987
157
15.9%
Measles
647
27
674
77
11.4%
Poliomyelitis, acute
14
LO
5
19
4
21.1%
Scarlet Fever
4
4
Whooping cough
442
10
452
5
1.1%
Rabies (Human)
1
0
1
1
100 %
•
(Animal)
6
6
100 %
Puerperal Fever
6
0
6
1
16.7%
- Malaria
962
48
1,010
46
4.6%
Tuberculosis
14,778
43
14,821 3,573
24.1%
There was a nil return for cholera, bubonic plague, epidemic typhus, yellow fever and relapsing fever.
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