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(a) Tuberculosis (all forms).

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39.

This disease gives rise to the second largest number of deaths for any single disease for all ages but is the chief cause of death among adults, A report on the tuberculosia service is given in Annexure P.

(b) Enteric Fever.

40. There was an increase in the number of cases of enteric fever in 1948 as compared with 1946 and 1947, but the death rate per 100 notifications has steadily fallen. The cases were sporadic and widespread throughout the Colony and at no time was it possible to identify any single source of infection.

(c) Smallpox.

41. The number of cases of smallpox recorded for 1948 was the lowest since records were kept.

(2) Weasles.

42. Table 9 shows the notifications and deaths according to age groups for measles during the years 1946, 1947 and 1948.

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11. The majority of these deaths were among infants and were due to lack of adequate medical attention, Investigations into the cause of infant mortality made by a committee under the chairmanship of Dr. Lee Hal Tiong showed that in only two and a half per cent of infant deaths recorded had the child been seen by a doctor for longer than twenty four hours before death (See annexure (7),

(A) Cancer.

46. Table 10 shows the deaths and death rate for cancer as a whole for the years 1940, 1947 and 1948 and table 11 shows the number of deaths and the death rate per total cancer deaths according to site and sex for the same period.

TABLE 9

1940

1947

1948

AGE GROUP

Notifica-

tions Deaths

Notifica-

tions Deaths

Notinea-

tions Deaths

W

0 to 5 years

135

20

5 to 15 years

148

6

15 to 25 years

25

25 to 35 years

35 to 45 years

45 to 55 years

55 to 65 years

85 to 75 years

75 & over

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6

65

69

15

11

12

10

Ka

+

Unknown

TOTAL

317

25

160

190

Deaths per 100

notifications

(e) Pneumonia (all forms).

43. As in previous post war years pueumonia claims the greatest number of deaths taking all ages into account.

There

has, however, been a steady fall in the deaths recorded with the result that the deaths in 1948 from this cause were only a little over three quarters of those in 1946.

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