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APPENDICES
Appendix VII- Contd
(Chapter 9: Health)
Infectious Diseases Notified
Cases and Deaths 1956-1960
Diseases
Amoebic
dysentery
Bacillary
dysentery
(Including
unspecified
1956
1957
1958
Cases Deaths Cases Deaths Cases Deaths
1959 Cases Deaths
1960 Cases Deaths
182
帶
6
217
8
262
12
239
18
334
9
dysentery) .. 560
550
9 =
424
25
663
26
678
10
Cerebro-spinal
meningitis ..
21
9
21
28
17
25
17
30
21
Chickenpox
273
2
280
2
278
3
278
3
304
1
Diphtheria
714
75
1,239
129
1,555
134
2,087
116
1,450
95
Enteric fever
(Typhoid &
Para-typhoid)
789
48
728
33
816
34
997
32
773
30
Malaria
496
447
659
I
442
1
833
Measles
709
86
875
93
786
191
743
176
710_
192
-
*Ophthalmia
neonatorum
X
X
105
244
254
Poliomyelitis ..
31
3
45
7
262
41
86
20
148
23
Puerperal fever
7
2
4
1
1
Scarlet fever..
14
5
10
24
17
1
Tuberculosis.. 12,155 2,629 13,665 2,675
13,485 2,302
14,302 2,178
12,425 2,085
Typhus (mite-
borne)
Whooping-
cough
119
2
96
197
2
110
48
Total
16.071 2,870 18,170 2,965 18,872 2,762
20,241 2,589
18,005 2.467
*Influenza
No record
21 No
record
53
33,700 39 11,659 25 5,727 26
Remarks: * Notifiable since June 1958.
↑ Voluntary notifications.
The above table omits rabies and 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 years.