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Appendix XIV

(Chapter 9: Public Health)

Infectious Diseases Notified

Cases and Deaths 1956 and 1957

387

Cases

Deaths

Diseases

Chinese

Non-Chinese

Yearly Total

1956 1957 1956 1957

1956 1957

1956 1957

Amoebic dysentery..

151

211

31

6

182 217

6

8

Bacillary dysentery..

521

507

39

43 560

550

4

9

Chickenpox....

157 186

116

94

273

280

2

2

Diphtheria....

710 1,230

4

9

714 1,239

75

129

Enteric fever

(Typhoid and

paratyphoid)

780

723

9

5

789 728

48

33

Malaria

492

441

4

6

496

447

4

Measles

655

622

54

253

709

875

86

93

Cerebro-spinal

Meningitis.......

21

21

21

21

9

Poliomyelitis

23

37

8

8

31

45

3

7

Puerperal fever

7

2

7

2

2

Rabies (human)

I

(animal)

Scarlet fever......

8

4

6

1

14

5

Tuberculosis........

12,097 13,611

58

54 12,155 13,665 2,629 2,675

Typhus (Urban)..

1

1

(Scrub)..

Whooping Cough..... 117

93

2

3 119

96

2

Total.....

15,739 17,688 332

482 16,071 18,170 | 2,870 | 2,965

The above table omits the six quarantinable diseases-i.e. cholera, smallpox, plague, epidemic louse-borne typhus, yellow fever and relapsing fever-no case of any of which was reported during the year.