TABLE 14
INFECTIOUS DISEASES NOTIFIED CASES AND DEATHS 1969-73
DI SEA SES
1969
Cases
1970 1971
Deaths
1972
1973
1969
1970 1971
1972
1973
Cholera
9
-
Amoebiasis
85
68
66
35
37
5
Bacillary Dysentery
736
609
543
462
407
7
3
Cerebrospinal Meningitia &
Meningococcal Infections
23
10
5
10
11
4
1
5
3
Chickenpox
445
959
443
510
272
2
2
Diphtheria
62
43
25
5
1
10
2
J
Enteric Fever
(Typhoid and Faratyphoid)|
546
438
515
466
339
7
um
5
6
4
6
Leprosy
127
135
117
101
100
I
-
L
Malaria
11
3
9
10
16
-
1 *
Measles
994
1011
591
783
1034
21
13
21
Ophthalmia Neonatorum
76
84
56
51
33
I
Poliomyelitis
16
27
2
4
3
3
3
1
Fuerperal Fever
1
1
3
1
1
Scarlet Fever
4
3
5
4
1
Tuberculosis
11072
100777
9028
8420
8152
1470
1436
1250
1312
1154
Typhus (Mita-borne)
Whooping Cough
Total
# Influenza
3
5
9
14210
3232
13473 11410
5814 7397
1087,3
7473
Remarks: # Voluntary Notifications * Case reported in 1969
10412
6898 No case of rabies, smallpox, plague, epidemic louse-borne typhus, yellow fever or relapsing fever was reported during the specified years,
1528 1481 1271 1337 14 16 34 33
1193
14
TAFE 15
INCIDENCE & DEATH RATES FOR CERTAIN INFECTIOUS DISEASES 1969 1973
Incidence Rate (per 100,000
Death Rate (per million population)*
Diseases
1969
1970
1971
population)*
1972
1973
1969
1970
1971
1972
1973
Amoebiasis
2.20
1.72
1.53 0.86 0.89
1.81
1.01
0.99
0.74
1.20
Bacillary Dysentery
19.00
15.38
13.42
11.33 9.78
1.29
1.77
0.74
0.25
0.72
Cerebrospinal Meningitia
& Hemingocoocal
0.60
0.25
0.12
0.25
0.26
1.04
1.01
0.25
1.23
0.72
Infections
Diphtheria
1.60
1.09
0.62
0.12
0.02
2.59
1.01
0.49
+
I
Enteric (Typhoid &
Fever (Paratyphoid
14.13
11.06
12.73 11.43 8.15 1.81
1.26
1.48
0.98
1.44
Measles
Poliomyelitis
Tuberculosis
25.70 25.54 14.61 19.20 24.86 5.43 3.28 0.41 0.68 0.05 0.07 0.78 0.76
286.54 254.53 223.17 206.45 195.97 380.44 362.72
0.99
2.21
5.05
0.10
0.25 0.24
309.00
321.77 277.41
* Based on revised population estimates after 1971 Genaus