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SOCIAL HYGIENE SERVICE

(Tables 25-29)

55. The incidence of early infectious syphilis was about the same as in the previous year. The number of syphilitic cases was 24.3% less than the previous year. There was also a marked reduction of latent syphilitic cases in 1969. The incidence of gonorrhoea was 14.2% less than in the previous year. It is encouraging to note that the incidence of syphilis in the teenage group of the population has not risen in the manner experienced in many other parts of the world. The trends over the past ten years are illustrated in Figures 8 to 10.

56. Case finding continued at a high level, particulady in ante-natal cases where an initial positive serology rate of 1.4% was observed. Of the 224 positive cases referred from ante-natal clinics, only 163 cases. i... 72% were actually suffering from syphilis. Contact tracing, partic- ularly of infectious syphilis, was continued.

Leprosy

57. New cases of leprosy treated numbered 127, representing a rate of 3.2 per 100,000 of population. Tuberculoid manifestations com-

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