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TABLE 21 INFECTIOUS DISEASES NOTIFIED 1979 TO 1983

Cases

Deaths

Disease

1979

1980

1981

1982

1983

1979

1980

1981

1982

1983

Amoebiasis

46

39

48

37

37

6

2

Bacillary Dysentery

429

437

563

550

479

3

1

3

Cerebrospinal Meningitis &

33

29

18

16

13

3

I

1

Meningococcal Infections

Chickenpox

1 052

2 176

1 140

1 621

1 228

3

1

Cholera

3*

8#

1

Diphtheria

2

1

Enteric Fever: Typhoid

331

468

482

369

346

Paratyphoid

26

32

18

23

23

Food Poisoning : Outbreaks

146

102

175

215

169

(Persons affected)

(587)

(754)

(666)

(870)

(642)

Leprosy

70

60

55

57

38

ALLEGAT

INNI IN

TOTTA |

Malaria

40

49

62

80

125

I

Measles

1 929

1 669

249

1 863

888

32

Ophthalmia Neonatorum

3

1

5

4

1

Poliomyelitis

Puerperal Fever

IN

3

1

Rabies (Human)

1

Scarlet Fever Tuberculosis Typhus (Scrub) Viral Hepatitis Whooping Cough

Total

1

12

18

3

4

3

7 907

8 065

7 729

7 527

7 301

523

551

489

454

446

3

5

6

5

3

964

1 554

1 738

1 814

1 783

44

38

26

42

12

2

1

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28

12.997

14 724

12 302

14 195 12.438

619

615

527

510

485

Remarks: No case of smallpox, plague, epidemic louse-borne typhus, yellow fever or relapsing fever was reported during the specified years. * Imported cases # Including 5 imported cases

TABLE 22

NOTIFICATION AND DEATH RATES OF CERTAIN INFECTIOUS DISEASES 1979 TO 1983

Notification Rate (per 100,000 population)

Death Rate (per million population)

Disease

1979#

1980#

1981

1982 1983

1979#

1980# 1981

1982

1983

Amoebiasis

0.94

0.77

0.93

0.71

0.70

0.20

1.19

0.38

0.38

Bacillary Dysentery

8.79

8.67 10.92

10.51

9.02

0.61

0.20

0.58 0.19

0.19

Cerebrospinal Meningitis &

0.68

0.58

0.35

0.31

0.24

1.43

0.60

0.19

0.19

0.19

Meningococcal Infections

Diphtheria

0.04

0.02

t

0.19

Enteric Fever

7.32

9.92

9.70

7.49

6.94 0.61

1.19

0.78

I

0.56

(Typhoid & Paratyphoid)

Measles

Tuberculosis

Viral Hepatitis

39.54

162.08

19.76

33.12

160.07

30.84

4.83 35.60 16.71 6.56 149.96 143.84 137.41 107.20 33.72 34.67 33.56 9.02

0.99

0.96

0.38

109.36 94.88 86.76 83.94 7.54 5.04 8.03 5.27

# Adjusted according to revised population figures based on the 1981 Census.

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