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Appendix XXXI
(Chapter 7: Health)
Infectious Diseases Notified
Cases and Deaths 1965-1969
Cholera
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
Cases Deaths Cases Deaths Cases Deaths Cases Deaths Cases Deaths
1
Amoebic
dysentery
173
16
220
24
154
21
117
12
85
7
Bacillary
dysentery
(including
unspecified
dysentery)
537
4
766
10
829
7
869
6
736
5
Cerebro-spinal
meningitis
19
9
10
7
55
16
32
14
23
4
Chickenpox
+
1,552
600
4
1,257
10
900
1
445
Diphtheria
581
37
307
27
226
18
113
10
62
10
Enteric fever
(typhoid and
para-typhoid)
658
14
686
7
728
11
552
8
546
7
*Leprosy
102
160
2
148
164
127
Malaria
143
1
127
65
2
19
11
Measles
5,459 217 2,360
384
4,726
654
1,138
46
994
21
Ophthalmia
neonatorum
215
203
191
203
76
Poliomyelitis ...
140
17
32
1
5
3
15
2
16
3
Puerperal fever
3
2
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
12
371 !
Scarlet fever
9,927 1,278 11,427 1,515 15,253 1,493 9,792 1,483 11,072 1,470
64
1
4
Tuberculosis
Typhus (mite-
borne)
2
Whooping
cough
339
2
108
40
88
3
Total... 19,862 1,595 17,048 1,983 23,742 2,240 14,001 1,583 14,210 1,528
+Influenza
896
21 1,220
30 4,923
25 8,493 45 3,232
14
Remarks: * Notifiable since June 1965.
† 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 year,