TABLE 22
INCIDENCE AND DEATH RATES OF CERTAIN INFECTIOUS DISEASES 1973 TO 1977
Diseases
Incidence Rate # (per 100,000 population)
Death Rate (per million population) #
1973
1974
1975 1976
1977
1973
1974 1975
1976
1977
Amoebiasis
0.88 0.88
0.80
0.74
0.58
1.19
1.39 0.68
0.68
1.11
Bacillary Dysentery
9.66
7.32
9.03
8.01
7.13
0.71
0.69
0.68
0.22
Cerebrospinal Meningitis
0.26
0.25
0.30
0.20
0.22
0.71 1.39
1.14
0.68
& Meningococcal
Infections
Diphtheris
0.02
0.05
0.02
0.02
0.23
Enteric Fever
(Typhoid & Paratyphoid)
Measles
Poliomyelitis
Tuberculosis
Viral Hepatitis
24.55
0.07 193.51 192.61 136.36 178.41 14.79 40.06 21.81
8.05 8,80 13.22 11.25 36.46 3.14 32.92
8.62
34.05
159.31
22.33
1.42 1.62
4.99 12.27
0.24
273.94 225.48 146.96 9.97 10.88 9.78
0.90
0.44
0.45
2.25
2.66
127.82
10.13
117.86
9.30
# Adjusted according to revised population figures based on the 1976 By-census,
•
Notifiable since 27.3.74.
1
Age Group
TABLE 23
PRINCIPAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES NOTIFIED BY AGE AND SEX 1977
M
Tuberculosis
#
Hepatitis Viral
Enteric Fever
Dysentery Bacillary
M
F
M
F
M
F
0-
4
$-
9
10 - 14
49
89
15 - 19
446
335
20 - 24
659
411
T+
25 - 29
539
237
117
33
26
30 - 34
291
112
53
20
35 - 39
281
75
30
14
3
40 - 44
372
102
33
405
50 - 54
469
55 - 59
418
60 - 64
phy
༈ སྟྲ༔
30
12
2
31
H
17
19
N N
+
65 - 69
348
109
13
A
70 - 74
194
69
7
}
75 & over
121
98
3
3
Unknown
1
1 7
IN W W W
1
N N N N H
∞ B C N
∞. G 5 ∞ N W
WN4
2
10
1
8
5117
2074
703
301
208
181
145
Total
177
7191
1008*
389
322
*Note: Including 4 unknown sex and age
HN
P Q
11
9