TABLE 22
NOTIFICATION AND DEATH RATES OF CERTAIN INFECTIOUS DISEASES 1977 TO 1981
Notification Rate
Diseases
(per 100,000 population)
Death Rate (per million population)
1977#
1978#
1979#
1980#
1981
1977#
1978#
1979#
1980#
1981
Amoebiasis
0.58
0.26
0.94
0.77
0.93
1.11
0.44
0.20
1.19
Bacillary Dysentery
7.14
8.83
8.79
8.67
10.92
0.22
0.44
0.61
0.20
0.58
Cerebrospinal Meningitis &
0.22
0.09
0.68
0.58
0.35
1.43
0.60
0.19
Meningococcal Infections
Diphtheria
0.02
0.04
1
Enteric Fever
8.63
8.03
7.32
9.92
9.70
0.44
0.44
0.61
1.19
0.78
(Typhoid & Paratyphoid)
Measles
34.08
5.22
39.54
33.12
4.83
2.66
0.22
6.56
0.99
Tuberculosis
159.45
Viral Hepatitis
22.35
144.07
26.76
19.76 162.08
160.07
30.84
149.96
33.72
117.97
9.31
91.36
10.22
9.02 107.20
109.36
7.54
94.88
5.04
# Adjusted according to revised population figures based on the 1981 Census.
TABLE 23
FRINCIPAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES NOTIFIED BY AGE AND SEX 1981
Tuberculosis
Viral Hepatitis
Enteric Fever
Bacillary Dysentery
Age Group
M
+
M
F
M
F
M
F
0-4
20
23
5 - 9
16
94
10 - 14
53
115
8 2 N
17
9
36
25
35
23
11
15 - 19
279
172
01
43
17
28 8 8 8
20 - 24
534
230 110
52
17
26
25 - 29
339
217
68
59
31
20
22
30 - 34
192
132
37
8
20
12
18
35 - 39
89
56
8
B
11
7
40 - 44
48
16
毕
5
2
45 - 49
35
12
1
10
12
50 - 54
119
36
7
4
5
5
$5 - 59
474
109
18
10
4
3
7
60 - 64
426
123
14
6
។
A
4
7
65 - 69
346
103
3
3
2
9
7
70 - 74
229
75
4
6
2
12
75 & over
159
107
4
1
N
7
6
12
Unknown
1
1
7
1
{
5.397 2,332 1,208 530 247
252
317
244
Total
7.729
1,738
500(1)
563(2)
Note: Figures in brackets denote unknown sex included.