(3) Age Incidence.
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The following table shows the incidence of Notifiable Diseases according to various Age Groups.
AGE GROUPS. TOTAL DISEASES. Under 1 year. 1 to 5 years. 5 to 15 years. 15 to 30 years. 30 to 60 years. Over 60 years. CASES. Small Pox 104 369 52 69 21 1 616 Typhoid and Para-typhoid Fevers.. 2 10 56 130 57 3 258 Diphtheria...... 38 26 18 5 90 Cerebro Spinal Fever 10 3 3 4 Puerperal Fever 18 12 21 2 Plague ཐབ་ 20 4 ... Cholera ... Scarlet Fever Relapsing Fever Typhus Fever Yellow Fever .. ་་ Rabies.... ... ... AGE-GROUP TOTAL 119 420 137 243 86 4 1,009From the above table, it is evident that children, between the ages of one and five years, suffered most heavily from Notifiable Diseases in 1928 but that this figure was much augmented by the large number, in this age group, who contracted Small-pox during the Epidemic.
The next highest figure is in the young adult period; Typhoid being the outstanding disease in this group. Middle-age and Old-age show a very low incidence in all these diseases.