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APPENDICES

Appendix VII- Contd

(Chapter 9: Health)

Infectious Diseases Notified

Cases and Deaths 1956-1960

Diseases

Amoebic

dysentery

Bacillary

dysentery

(Including

unspecified

1956

1957

1958

Cases Deaths Cases Deaths Cases Deaths

1959 Cases Deaths

1960 Cases Deaths

182

帶

6

217

8

262

12

239

18

334

9

dysentery) .. 560

550

9 =

424

25

663

26

678

10

Cerebro-spinal

meningitis ..

21

9

21

28

17

25

17

30

21

Chickenpox

273

2

280

2

278

3

278

3

304

1

Diphtheria

714

75

1,239

129

1,555

134

2,087

116

1,450

95

Enteric fever

(Typhoid &

Para-typhoid)

789

48

728

33

816

34

997

32

773

30

Malaria

496

447

659

I

442

1

833

Measles

709

86

875

93

786

191

743

176

710_

192

-

*Ophthalmia

neonatorum

X

X

105

244

254

Poliomyelitis ..

31

3

45

7

262

41

86

20

148

23

Puerperal fever

7

2

4

1

1

Scarlet fever..

14

5

10

24

17

1

Tuberculosis.. 12,155 2,629 13,665 2,675

13,485 2,302

14,302 2,178

12,425 2,085

Typhus (mite-

borne)

Whooping-

cough

119

2

96

197

2

110

48

Total

16.071 2,870 18,170 2,965 18,872 2,762

20,241 2,589

18,005 2.467

*Influenza

No record

21 No

record

53

33,700 39 11,659 25 5,727 26

Remarks: * Notifiable since June 1958.

↑ Voluntary notifications.

The above table omits rabies and 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 years.