Diseases
APPENDICES
Appendix XIV
(Chapter 9: Public Health)
Infectious Diseases Notified
Cases and Deaths 1958 and 1959
Chinese
Non-Chinese
Yearly Total
Deaths
375
1958 1959 1958 1959 1958 1959 1958 1959
Amoebic dysentery..
253 234
9
5
262 239
12
18
Bacillary dysentery
(Including
unspecified
dysentery)
392 647
32
16
424
663
25
26
Chickenpox
Diphtheria
234 210
44
68
278 278
3
3
1,551❘ 2,081
4
6
1,555 2,087
134
116
Enteric fever
(Typhoid and
Paratyphoid)
814 988
2
9
816
997
34
32
Malaria
655
433
4
9 659 442
1
1
Measles
769
694
17
49
786
743 191
176
Cerebro-spinal
Meningitis
28
25
28
Poliomyelitis
249
79
13
7
262
288
25
17
17
86
41
Puerperal fever
4
1
4
1
21
20
Ophthalmia
neonatorum
105
244
105
244
Rabies (Human)
(Animal)
Scarlet fever
10
22
2
10
24
Tuberculosis
13,451 14,261
34
4113,485 14,302 | 2,302 | 2,178
Typhus (Urban)
(Scrub)
1
1
Whooping cough
196 104
1
6 197 110
2
2
Total ..
18,712 20,022 160
219 18,872 20,241 2,762 2,589
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.