TABLE 22 INFECTIOUS DISEASES NOTIFIED 1984 TO 1988

Cases

Deaths

Disease

1984

1985

1986

1987

1988

1984

1985

1986

1987

1988

Amoebiasis

29

16

13

Bacillary Dysentery

Cerebrospinal Meningitis &

396

519

344

381

454

12

2

Meningococcal Infections

Chickenpox

2 433

1 194

1 635

1 879

3. 436

Cholera

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2

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4

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8

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2

INT

2

à

1

EI

Enteric Fever: Typhoid

317

267

186

248

157

Paratyphoid

14

20

12

25

25

Food Poisoning: Outbreaks

233

278

223

378

534

(Persons affected}

(1 340)

(958) |(1 076) |(1 566)

(1 239)

Leprosy

32

32

29

21

Malaria

113

168

143

106

Measles

678

280

215

194

3 162

22

98

2

UNI

Ophthalmia Neonatorum

6

5

10

9

Poliomyelitis

I

LINI

1

(00)

Rables (Human)

2#

2+

1*

2

Scarlet Fever Tuberculosis Typhus (Urban) Typhus (Scrub) Viral Hepatitis

5

1

9

3

10

7 843

7 545

7 432

7 269

7 021

420

409

407

405

388

1*

1

3

6

12

5

4

12

1 780

1 601

1 425

1 554

2.398

12

19

23

37

Whooping Cough

Total

13

21

1

8

-

13 915

11 975

11 716

12 084 17 366

443

426

433

434

438

Remarks: No case of smallpox, plague, epidemic louse-borne typhus, yellow fever or relapsing fever was reported during the specified years.

* Imported cases

# Including 7 imported cases

TABLE 23

NOTIFICATION AND DEATH RATES OF SELECTED INFECTIOUS DISEASES 1984 TO 1988

Notification Rate (per 100 000 population)

Death Rate (per million population)

Disease

1984

1995

1986

1987

1988

1984

1985

1986

1987

1988

Amoebiasis

0.54

0.29

0.23

0.11

0.14

0.19

0.37

0.36

Bacillary Eysentery

7.34

9.51

6.22

6.79

7.99

0.18

0.35

Cerebrospinal Meningitis &

0.15

0.22

0.11

0.04

0.11

0.18

Meningococcal Infections

Enteric Fever

6.13

5.26

3.58

4.86 3.20

0.19

0.18

0.18

0.18

0.35

(Typhoid & Paratyphoid)

Measles

12.56

$.13

3.89

Tuberculosis

Viral Hepatitis

145.30 138.28

32.98 29.34

134.33

25.76

3.46 55.66

129.49 123.58 77.81

0.37

0.18

0.19

1.41

74.96

73.56

72.15

69.29

27.68 42.21

2.23

2.38

3.43

4.10

6.51

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