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Appendix XIV

(Chapter 9: Public Health) Infectious Diseases Notified

Cases and Deaths 1957 and 1958

Chinese

Non-Chinese

Yearly Total

Deaths

Diseases

1957

1958

1957 | 1958

1957

1958

1957 1958

Amoebic dysentery 211

253

6

9

217

262

8

12

Bacillary dysentery 507

392

43

32

550

424

9

25

Chickenpox

186

234

94

44

280

278

2

3

Diphtheria..

1.230

1,551

9

4

1.239

1,555

129

134

Enteric fever

(Typhoid and

Paratyphoid)

723

814

5

2

728

816

33

34

Malaria

441

655

6

4

447

659

1

Measles

622

769

253

17

875

786

93

191

Cerebro-spinal

Meningitis

21

28

21

28

9

17

Poliomyelitis

37

249

8

13

45

262

7

41

Puerperal fever

2

4

2

4

*Ophthalmia

neonatorum

105

105

Rabies (Human)

(Animal)

Scarlet fever

4

10

1

5

10

Tuberculosis

13,611 13,451

54

34 13,665 13,485 | 2,675 | 2,302

Typhus (Urban)

(Scrub)

1

1

Whooping Cough..

93 196

3

1

96

197

2

Total ..

17,688 18,712

482

160 18,170 18,872 2,965 | 2,762

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

* Ophthalmia neonatorum was declared notifiable in June 1958..