Appendix XIV
(Chapter 9: Public Health)
Infectious Diseases Notified
Cases and Deaths 1956 and 1957
387
Cases
Deaths
Diseases
Chinese
Non-Chinese
Yearly Total
1956 1957 1956 1957
1956 1957
1956 1957
Amoebic dysentery..
151
211
31
6
182 217
6
8
Bacillary dysentery..
521
507
39
43 560
550
4
9
Chickenpox....
157 186
116
94
273
280
2
2
Diphtheria....
710 1,230
4
9
714 1,239
75
129
Enteric fever
(Typhoid and
paratyphoid)
780
723
9
5
789 728
48
33
Malaria
492
441
4
6
496
447
4
Measles
655
622
54
253
709
875
86
93
Cerebro-spinal
Meningitis.......
21
21
21
21
9
Poliomyelitis
23
37
8
8
31
45
3
7
Puerperal fever
7
2
7
2
2
Rabies (human)
I
(animal)
Scarlet fever......
8
4
6
1
14
5
Tuberculosis........
12,097 13,611
58
54 12,155 13,665 2,629 2,675
Typhus (Urban)..
1
1
(Scrub)..
Whooping Cough..... 117
93
2
3 119
96
2
Total.....
15,739 17,688 332
482 16,071 18,170 | 2,870 | 2,965
The above table omits the six quarantinable diseases-i.e. cholera, smallpox, plague, epidemic louse-borne typhus, yellow fever and relapsing fever-no case of any of which was reported during the year.