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Diseases

APPENDICES

Appendix XIV

(Chapter 9: Public Health)

Infectious Diseases Notified

Cases and Deaths 1958 and 1959

Chinese

Non-Chinese

Yearly Total

Deaths

375

1958 1959 1958 1959 1958 1959 1958 1959

Amoebic dysentery..

253 234

9

5

262 239

12

18

Bacillary dysentery

(Including

unspecified

dysentery)

392 647

32

16

424

663

25

26

Chickenpox

Diphtheria

234 210

44

68

278 278

3

3

1,551❘ 2,081

4

6

1,555 2,087

134

116

Enteric fever

(Typhoid and

Paratyphoid)

814 988

2

9

816

997

34

32

Malaria

655

433

4

9 659 442

1

1

Measles

769

694

17

49

786

743 191

176

Cerebro-spinal

Meningitis

28

25

28

Poliomyelitis

249

79

13

7

262

288

25

17

17

86

41

Puerperal fever

4

1

4

1

21

20

Ophthalmia

neonatorum

105

244

105

244

Rabies (Human)

(Animal)

Scarlet fever

10

22

2

10

24

Tuberculosis

13,451 14,261

34

4113,485 14,302 | 2,302 | 2,178

Typhus (Urban)

(Scrub)

1

1

Whooping cough

196 104

1

6 197 110

2

2

Total ..

18,712 20,022 160

219 18,872 20,241 2,762 2,589

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.