APPENDICES
Appendix VII — Contd
(Chapter 9: Health)
Infectious Diseases Notified
Cases and Deaths 1957-1961
429
1957
1958
1959
1960
1961
Diseases
Cases Deaths Cases Deaths Cases Deaths Cases Deaths Cases Deaths
Cholera
130
15
Amoebic
dysentery
217
8
262
12
239
18
334
215
12
Bacillary
j
dysentery
(Including
unspecified
dysentery)
550
9
424
25
663
26
678
10
742
8
Cerebro-spinal
meningitis ..
21
9
28
17
25
17
30
21
36
26
Chickenpox
280
2
278
3
278
3
304
1
498
7
Diphtheria
1,239
129
1,555
134
2.087
116
1,450
95
1,334
109
Enteric fever
(Typhoid and
Para-typhoid)
728
33
816
34
997
32
773
30
742
24
Malaria
447
659
1
442
1
883
8121
Measles
875
93
786
191
743
176
710 192
1,727
435.
*Ophthalmia
neonatorum
105
244
|
254
250
Poliomyelitis..
45
7
262
41
86
20
148
223
184
39
Puerperal fever
2
1
1
2
2
Scarlet fever..
5
10
24
17
1
29
·
Tuberculosis 13,665 2,675 13,485 2,302
14,302 2,178
12,425 2,085 12,584 1,907
Typhus (mite-
borne)
1
1
Whooping-
cough
96
197
2
110
48
47
1
Total
18,170 2,965
18,872 2,762 20,241 2,589 18,005 2,467
19,333 2,586
†Influenza
No record
53 33,700
39
11,659
25 5,727
26
6,223
39
Remarks: * Notifiable since June 1958.
† Voluntary notifications.
The above table omits rabies, smallpox, plague, epidemic louse-borne typhus, yellow fever and relapsing fever-no case of any of which was reported during the years.