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Appendix XIII

(Chapter 9: Public Health)

Infectious Diseases

1955 and 1956

Chinese

Non-Chinese

Yearly Total

Deaths

315

Diseases

1955 1956

1955 1956

1955 1956

1955 1956

Amoebic dysentery

171 151

39

31

210

182

6

6

..

Bacillary dysentery..

500

521

24

39

524

560

37

4

Chickenpox

276

157

104

116

380

273

4

ลง

2

Diphtheria

831

710

9

4

840

714

71

75

Enteric fever...

725

780

10

9

735

789

58

48

Malaria

220

492

9

4

229

496

Measles

444

655

99

54

543

709

88

86

Meningitis

11

21

11

21

3

9

Poliomyelitis

35

23

16

8

51

31

3

3

F

Puerperal fever...........

7

7

1

2

Rabies (human) ...

3

3

3

(animal)

(11)

Scarlet fever........

27

8

18

6

45

14

1

Tuberculosis........ 14,060 12,097 88

58 14,148 12,155 2,810 2,629

Typhus (Urban).

2

1

2

1

(Scrub)...

ลง

2

2

Whooping Cough........... 199 117

14

2

213 119

1

2

Total.....

17,510 15,739 430

332 17,940 16,071 | 3,095 2,870

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