46. For school entrants there are 10 inoculators divided into 5 teams engaged in tuberculin testing and the administration of B.C.G. It takes approximately two years for all schools to be covered.
47. The work of hospitals dealing with tuberculosis cases is reviewed elsewhere in this report.
SOCIAL HYGIENE SERVICE
(Ses tables 25-29)
48. The incidence of early infectious syphilis was almost the same as in the previous year while the number of latent syphilitic cases was 21% higher. This increase was due mainly to a high incidence of early infectious syphilis in the period 1960-64. The incidence of gonorrhoea was about the same as in the previous year. It is encouraging to note that the incidence of syphilis in the teenage group of the population has not risen in the manner experienced in many other parts of the world. The trends over the past ten years are illustrated in Figures 9 to 11.
FIGURE 9
SYPHILIS 1959 – 1568
FOTAL
HITT
Γ
LG
MACIST NOC 19:10 E
QUELS
H
n
KORZATOK GED &L TIR
I
HOLA, TANTE,
CO
量
FIGURE 10 INFECTIOUS SYPHILIS 1959 – 196R
Boll
i
A
H
THE HER SITG
44FES
FIGURE 11
GONORRHOEA 1939 – 1963
12
17
ANY REWE MATE
ส
ם
PEDENCE AULE PER MEUS PEPEATAN AGED 14 & 1963
+
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