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Appendix XIV
(Chapter 9: Public Health) Infectious Diseases Notified
Cases and Deaths 1957 and 1958
Chinese
Non-Chinese
Yearly Total
Deaths
Diseases
1957
1958
1957 | 1958
1957
1958
1957 1958
Amoebic dysentery 211
253
6
9
217
262
8
12
Bacillary dysentery 507
392
43
32
550
424
9
25
Chickenpox
186
234
94
44
280
278
2
3
Diphtheria..
1.230
1,551
9
4
1.239
1,555
129
134
Enteric fever
(Typhoid and
Paratyphoid)
723
814
5
2
728
816
33
34
Malaria
441
655
6
4
447
659
1
Measles
622
769
253
17
875
786
93
191
Cerebro-spinal
Meningitis
21
28
21
28
9
17
Poliomyelitis
37
249
8
13
45
262
7
41
Puerperal fever
2
4
2
4
*Ophthalmia
neonatorum
105
105
Rabies (Human)
(Animal)
Scarlet fever
4
10
1
5
10
Tuberculosis
13,611 13,451
54
34 13,665 13,485 | 2,675 | 2,302
Typhus (Urban)
(Scrub)
1
1
Whooping Cough..
93 196
3
1
96
197
2
Total ..
17,688 18,712
482
160 18,170 18,872 2,965 | 2,762
The above table omits the six quarantinable diseases t.e, cholera, smallpox, plague, epidemic louse-borne typhus, yellow fever and relapsing fever-no case of any of which was reported during the year.
* Ophthalmia neonatorum was declared notifiable in June 1958..